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25 May 09

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • Since every interruption costs around 25 minutes of productivity, we spend nearly a third of our day recovering from them.
20 Mar 09

How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle

  • A 2007 study by economists Neil Gandal, Charles King, and Marshall Van Alstyne looked at the networks formed by 125,000 email messages from the staff of an executive-recruiting firm. It found that email's real value isn't in communicating with Kuala Lumpur but with Betsy in the next cubicle. The most productive workers have the densest intracompany email web.
26 Jun 08

Convert Your Annotations to Blog Posts with 1-click

  • you simply highlight and add sticky notes on anything that interests you, and afterwards, you can easily incorporate your highlights and notes to your blog with one-click "Send to Blog".
18 May 08

Emergency 2.0 is coming to a website near you - tech - 02 May 2008 - New Scientist Tech

  • "National news websites were completely worthless as they ignored everything except the comparatively minor Malibu fire, which burned near some celebrities' homes," said one.
04 May 08

Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Left brain functions
    Right brain functions

    sequential
    simultaneous

    analytical
    holistic

    verbal
    imagistic

    logical
    intuitive

    linear algorithmic processing
    holistic algorithmic processing

    mathematics: perception of counting/measurement
    mathematics: perception of shapes/motions[citation needed]

    present and past
    present and future[citation needed]

    language: grammar/vocabulary, literal
    language: intonation/accentuation, prosody, pragmatic, contextual
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