This blog post on the effects of “growing up connected” on child development sent chills through my body: not those of fear but of realization. I’ve focused so hard on how new technologies provide opportunities (implicitly to humans thinking roughly the same way they have for millenia) that I hadn’t thought much about the way [...]
Growing Up Connected & The Way It Shapes Our Minds
April 18th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: culture · neuroscience · psychology
Pottery, Churches, and Palaces Aren’t Enough
January 25th, 2009 2 Comments
All Roads Lead to Versailles Spend a summer backpacking Europe and you’ll likely soon discover that your church saturation point is lower than you think. A recent winter break trip to Thailand taught me that temples and palaces lose their flavor faster than Fruit Stripe. With the incredibly richness of natural wonders, cultural quirks, niche [...]
Tags: culture · government · Hacking Education · history · Travelogues
Building Fluency in “Touch”
August 21st, 2008 No Comments
[wp_geo_map] A more responsible me would be packing right now. But I feel like I’ve left so much unsaid about India on this blog. Its definitely not for a lack of insights and excitement (my blogging absence has been the product of intermittent internet access, project business, and illness). There are a hundred little themes [...]