The Snail Shell

I'm 25. That means I've lived 25 years. Hah! I've still got my piece on the game board of life, and it's doing pretty all ri...

Thanks to the Internet, we all know all the facts. When you learn something, you're just decreasing the lookup time. Sometimes this is...

Martin Seligman is partially responsible for everyone talking about "happiness" today. But he's also sick of people just hand-...

I just passed my motorcycle test. I wish I had asked about statistics on motorcycle safety during the class. I found this  and this  and thi...

Just got back from Vancouver and CHI, the biggest human-computer interaction conference. My research blog has a list of some papers I found ...

Well, I wanted to try it again, so I went for the last week and a half, almost 2 weeks, without eating grains. Got a bit more data. Plus I...

I thought that bit was just the best few sentences I'd heard in a long while. But it's stuck with me, digging up an old question I s...

"You must write and I must be a guide. It is our svaha, our nature. Perhaps next time we will be luckier, less condemned to our differe...

It's not that the things I'm doing are special, but the experience of doing them just feels relatively wonderful. I slept like an i...

I tend to draw a line between consumptive and productive pleasures. You can get enjoyment out of eating an ice cream sundae, watching a movi...

Okay I guess one last blog/buzz about business cards.  There it is. Woo! How to make one yourself: 1. Find a QR code generator. I like th...

I'm going to a conference for the first time ever. I will probably meet a lot of people. Maybe I would like some of them to remember me....

Every time I touch down in CLE, I spend a week surrounded by people who love me. Okay, of course, going home to visit family and friends is ...

Cold brain = the part of you that thinks like a computer. Hot brain = emotions, gut feelings, instincts, procedural memory, the stuff that...

So here I rail against people using their phones when they're hanging out with friends. (in general with the " multitasking is bad ...

- need? Do you do the things you do because you must in order to survive? - guilt? - duty? (you feel like you have to, for one reason or a...

I've got a couple of projects I'm working on now. Both are mobile apps. I think I'll try standing desks some more. I'm int...

Flow , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is one of the more influential books in my life. So I got The Evolving Self,  Csikszentmihalyi's foll...

I think I got a taste of what mindfulness tastes like. My main focus was my rising and falling stomach. I caught most every thought that cam...

First, short thought: when you are not-doing, that too is a thing you are doing . You cannot do more or less. All you can do is redirect ene...