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Mindfulness and Smartphones
Via Big Think: What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, “researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices–iPod Touch […]
Where we are: Quito, Ecuador
Our hostel has awesome views of the city from a top floor lobby/balcony.
9/3 Destination: Santorini, Greece
The NFL’s Modern (Mindful) Man
How Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin — a bike-riding, socially conscious, Animal Collective–loving person — is redefining what it means to be a football player. Interesting Excerpts: “In a league where single-minded football obsession and the purposeful snuffing out of personality seems to be encouraged among players, Barwin has established himself as a unique character. […]