“Listen to this,” I say to him—that shy son of mine who avoids interacting with people at all cost. “This book I’m...
A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Guy Kawasaki about his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions. Guy is a former Chief Evangelist for Apple, the founder...
How to Change the World. That’s the name of his blog. I looked him up after a friend suggested we read his...
Social media is a syringe that sucks time out of our daily work. In fact, some companies have banned social media from the workplace altogether, and for good reason. Over half of all...
I take comfort from some advice written 20 years before anyone thought of mobile computing and the internet.
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Emptying and filling, she said. I have been thinking about these words all morning. Emptying and filling, emptying and filling, emptying and filling. ...
Task switching may be an inherent part of our fast-paced, plugged-in world, but we can still make time each week, or even each day, to slow down, reduce the volume, and focus on...
An associate of mine recently witnessed an all-too-common scene: four people at a restaurant table, deep in conversation . . . on four different cell phones. Think of it! Good friends finally...
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact...
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson tapped on his keyboard and hit “send” on the first-ever email ... all the way across the room to a second computer in his lab.
Can the Church exist online without ever meeting? Can our activities online become a kind of addiction? How do we balance our online activities with the real world? After attending the Christian Web...
My friend Dwight doesn’t usually carry a cell phone, and I asked him why not. “Well,” he said, “have you ever noticed how people with phones feel like they have to answer them...
Many of us don't think much about communicating on the Internet. When we fire off an email, leave a comment, or post an update, we leave a trail. Our words are there for...
My father had a work plan that Benjamin Franklin would have approved of. Somehow it never seemed to work out that way for me.
Years ago at a university lecture, television legend Charles Kuralt ended his speech with a question and answer session. An insolent college student stepped up to a microphone and assaulted Kuralt...
Herod’s Disturbance (Click Here to Read) In this daily reflection from The High Calling, Mark Roberts writes about how, in contrast to Herod in Matthew 2, we can submit our daily life and...
Adolescence is the period of life between childhood and adulthood in which life-affecting changes occur.
Along with the clock, the automobile has had a more profound effect on modern life than any other invention.
Commuting to work by private or public transportation is one of the daily realities of modern life.
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