Dear Everybody,
Before you post it, tweet it, or press that Submit button, please ask yourself one simple question: Is it worth the interruption that it will cause others?
Supposing the roles were reversed, would you desire that article of data you are publishing to invade your consciousness? Is it helpful? Does it offer anything constructive and meaningful to others?
Yes, I realize I don’t have to follow you on Twitter.
I don’t have to read your blog.
I don’t have to click on your links.
I subscribe to your thoughts through these channels because …

Here is my premise: all the technology in the world cannot create a more neutral working environment than a blank sheet of paper. Nothing comes with fewer agendas or predeterminants. Simply, blank paper does not presuppose anything about the nature of the creation. Literally, it’s boundaries are nothing but it’s edges, which themselves can be amended, appended and manipulated in countless ways. There is nothing else in the world burgeoning with more flexibility.
Upon blank paper is born the embryo of the unrealized. It is all at once the most adaptable, …

Reflections on face-to-face interaction; the most truthful communication between humans.

The engines of social media fuel a nicotine-like addiction to a splattering of “de-focusing” stimulants. Every Tweet, every status update, is another carcinogen, propagating the erosion of your focused attention. This is the beginning of a personal experiment to harness the networking power of social media, but on my own terms of focus and access.

Focus is the capacity to choose what you are thinking about. Therefore, reading the news, a friend’s status update, a product announcement, and a host of disparate updates at the same time is the epitome of counter-productivity, because it systematically sprays your attention in a million directions at once. Most Twitter users willing, daily, and even hourly sacrifice their focus on the alter of their Following list. In a sense, to follow hundreds of people is to devalue the very people you are following. Your likelihood of missing a real friend’s update exponentially grows with the number of other people you follow.

Social media inherently makes us think and organize ourselves as if “being me” is virtually a business venture.