For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.

Procrastination is a self-reinforcing cycle. The more you stall important work, the more you’ll continue to do so. Yet procrastination doesn’t result from a dearth of motivation or productivity; it manifests from a failure to regulate negative emotions. If you are mired in a chronic procrastination cycle, journalist Charlotte Lieberman helps you dig your way out. She interviewed an array of psychologists, authors and professors to figure out how best to end the self-destructive cycle. Lieberman provides a range of tips to guide procrastinators into a more positive frame of mind.

«“Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa.»

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine left me deeply unsettled. Even frightened.

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.

Technologists, academics, politicians and journalists suggested ways to improve Facebook — as a product, a company or both.

I couldn’t read a book, watch a full-length movie or sustain a long conversation. Late last year, I decided enough was enough.

A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news

In “The Wandering Mind,” the historian Jamie Kreiner shows that the struggle to focus is not just a digital-age blight but afflicted even those who spent their lives in seclusion and prayer.