Month: October 2016
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Five Ways to Practice Mindfulness Without Meditating
The term “mindfulness” is often used hand in hand, or even synonymously, with “meditating,” and for good reason–mindfulness meditation is one of the most longstanding and widely-used techniques for practicing mindfulness. It isn’t, however, the only way. In Buddhist teaching it is said that there are 84,000 doors to enlightenment. Here I’ll…
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Taking Control of Notifications to Take Back Your Attention
Receiving a reminder of an upcoming meeting or task from our smartphones can be a great way to remember to be somewhere to get something done on time. All too often, however, our smartphones beep, flash, and vibrate at us every few minutes to provide us with information we don’t really need. And…
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A Preemptive Strike in the Battle Against Messaging Fatigue
Do you feel like you spend more of your day responding to messages than living? Do you need to turn off your smartphone at work and hide in a closet just to get “real” work done? If so, you may be suffering from messaging fatigue. One source of this ailment is the need–whether…
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Making Email Slow Again
When I first began to use email in earnest, while a student at MIT in the early 1990s, writing and reading emails had much the same feeling as writing and reading handwritten letters. By far the easiest way to write an email was to go to one of a small number of computer clusters…
