Selected Press and Blog Posts
Continuous Partial Attention
- “Linda Stone on Maintaining Focus in a Maddeningly Distractive World,” The Atlantic, May 2013
- The Economist, 4/20/2006, “What Sort of Revolution?”
- Steven Levy, Newsweek, 3/27/2006, “(Some) Attention Must Be Paid!”
- Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 7/5/2006, “The Age of Interruption”
- Ellen Goodman, Washington Post, 8/13/2005, “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”
- Maia Ridberg, 5/3/2006, “Professors want their classes ‘unwired’”
- Ken Belson, New York Times, 11/26/2006, “A Parent’s Guide to Teenspeak by Text Message”
- Harvard Business Review, February 2007, “The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007” (need subscription to access)
- Wired Magazine, November 2003, “The Connectors”
- John Brockman’s 1996 book, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, Chapter 29 (The Catalyst: Linda Stone)
- MJ Ryan, SheEO, 5/11/2020, “Is Zoom Wearing You Out?”
- Susan Cain, Psychology Today, 10/5/2011, “Why You Dislike Multi-Tasking”
- Philip Hesketh, LinkedIn Pulse, 5/4/2020, “Why Zoom Meetings are So Tiring”
- Terrie Schweitzer, Coach Me, 9/4/2014, “Linda Stone: Attention and the Essential Self”
- Medium, 8/14/2014, “Your Quantifiable Self, Your Essential Self: An Interview With Linda Stone”
- Henry Jenkins Blog, 11/22/2010, “Multitasking and Continuous Partial Attention: An Interview with Linda Stone (Part Two)”
- Linda Samuels, Oh, So Organized!, 6/19/2017, “Are You Suffering from Continuous Partial Attention?”
- Peter Pruyn, The Systems Thinker, “Continuous Partial Attention and the Demise of Discretionary Time”
Email Apnea
- Maggie Seaver, Real Simple, 6/23/2021, “‘Email Apnea’ Is a Real Thing – Here’s How to Stop Holding Your Breath While Working (and Feel Less Stressed)”
- Nate Klemp, Inc., 7/7/2019, “Feeling Stressed Out by Your Email? You Might Be Suffering From Email Apnea”
- Susan M. Pollak MTS, Ed.D., Psychology Today, 11/6/2014, “Email Apnea”
- Megan Rose Dickey, Business Insider, 12/5/12, “FREAKY: Your Breathing Patterns Change When You Read Email”
- TEDBlog, 2/13/2008, “Just Breathe: Identifying E-mail Apnea”
- Ben Schott, The New York Times, 9/23/2009, “Email Apnea”
- Mary McMahon, Wise Geek, 8/26/2020, “What is Email Apnea?”
- Drake Baer, Fast Company, 5/2/2013, “If Your Inbox is Suffocating You, Take A Deep Breath and Then Fight Back”
Essential Self Technology
- Wade Roush, Xconomy, 8/8/2014, “Linda Stone’s Antidote to Quantified Self: The Essential Self”
- Linda Stone, Medium, 3/10/2017, “You’ve Got Rhythm”
Radio, Podcasts, Interviews
- Interviewed by Nora Young, CBC Radio, 11/9/2009, “The pleasures and sorrows of work, continuous partial attention, and email apnea” (podcast; Linda’s interview appears at 26:54)
- CBC Radio, 11/16/2014, “The essential self”
- Interviewed by Naomi Most, PirateCat Radio, 10/13/2009, “Subversive Science: Email Apnea and Technical Hilarities” (podcast)
- SIME 2009, 5/30/2010, Interview
- Tony Wrighton, Zestology, 11/19, “Are you suffering from Continuous Partial Attention?”
- Technology for Mindfulness Podcast, 11/20/2017, “Continuous Partial Attention”
- “Benefits of Meditation & Effects of Continuous Partial Attention with Sharon Salzberg,” 12/13/2017
Other Select Mentions in the Blogosphere
Selected Articles by Linda
Linda’s Posts in The Huffington Post
- Life in Front of a Screen: Finding Your Rhythm
- Why Email Can Be Habit-Forming
- TED: A Celebration of Ideas Worth Spreading
- Blackberry One: The World Has Changed and We Must Change With It
- What Will Change Everything?
- When Distraction is Good
- Phone in the Toilet?
- Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?
- Just Breathe: Building the Case for Email Apnea
- Fine Dining With Mobile Devices
Linda’s Posts in O’Reilly Radar
- The Fun Theory
- At Risk: Universal Online Access to All Knowledge
- Mental Landscapes, David Brooks and the Aspen Festival of Ideas
- When Distraction is Good
- It’s at the Scene of the Crime, But it’s not the Criminal
- RIP: Returned Every Email
- Phone in the Toilet?
- Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?
- Diagnosis: Email Apnea?
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