Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots
“Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a…
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“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly
Total surveillance, an emergent sharing economy, pervasive networked AI—these are just a few of the…
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The Tech-Christian Apologist Who Demolished Gawker
Libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Christian faith seriously.
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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan
If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A…
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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto
Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps…
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TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition
The top ten most watched TED talks are, in order, about: Creativity Confidence Motivation…
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The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism
In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers…
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Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’
Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.
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