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LenaKW Give a man a gun he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank he can rob the world. - @callutome fb.me/12izeV0nc 7:24 AM May 25th via Facebook Retweeted by askpang and 3 others
@EskoKilpi Not so sure: serendipity is more complex and user-generated than that. bit.ly/KeH3Tk 8:05 PM May 24th via web in reply to EskoKilpi
@annegalloway As a prof of mine told her philosophy class, "why don't you start by assuming you DON'T exist, and see where you end up?" 4:51 PM May 24th via web in reply to annegalloway
@annegalloway Agreed, but I think starting with the assumption that you have a lot of freedom is a good opening gambit. 4:50 PM May 24th via web in reply to annegalloway
More reflections on @ajkeen, serendipity and technology. Thanks to @EvanSelinger for getting me thinking about it! contemplativecomputing.org/2012/05/reflec… #fb 4:49 PM May 24th via web
Reflections on serendipity bit.ly/KY1Yrl 4:47 PM May 24th via TypePad
@EvanSelinger FINALLY A USE FOR PHENOMENOLOGY! 2:03 PM May 24th via web in reply to EvanSelinger
@anthonymobile You're not in the prediction game! 9:46 AM May 24th via web in reply to anthonymobile
@mccormicktim @hrheingold I've been deleting FB and Twitter apps from my mobile devices. Makes me less self-distractible. 9:43 AM May 24th via web in reply to mccormicktim
@mccormicktim @hrheingold At Highwire + Stanford are you ever more than about 10 feet from a wireless router? 9:42 AM May 24th via web in reply to mccormicktim
@EvanSelinger So for ex. we "know" how to recognize serendipity in the pages of Britannica or the New Yorker, but not their Web sites. 9:37 AM May 24th via web in reply to EvanSelinger
@EvanSelinger Which means we can design to encourage/discourage it, but not "deliver" it. It's a way of seeing the world not an algorithm... 9:37 AM May 24th via web in reply to EvanSelinger
@EvanSelinger I think serendipity is like attention: it's created by users in the world, not delivered to us by technology... 9:35 AM May 24th via web in reply to EvanSelinger
Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88: nyti.ms/KDvxyk A great writer and unmatched critic of war literature. 10:19 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
Time "is the most-used noun in the English language:" nymag.com/print/?/arts/b… #fb 5:42 PM May 23rd via HootBar
@odannyboy A good lesson that feeling busy is not the same as being busy. Easy to forget in the delirious professions. 9:35 AM May 23rd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to odannyboy
New book on social jet lag and how culture "radically complicate(s)... our relationship to time." bit.ly/Ithvm0 via @ilparone 9:34 AM May 23rd via Twitter for iPhone
Excellent essay. Worth your attention. RT @ilparone: the supreme masters of the avant-garde art of persuasion bit.ly/IEHcMJ #art #fb 9:29 AM May 23rd via Twitter for iPhone
ilparone "Wise men contemplate the world knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves." -Fra Mauro 9:19 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by askpang
@odannyboy My life changed when I started getting up @ 5 am to write. Too bleary to be distracted is an oddly effective state. 9:21 AM May 23rd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to odannyboy

Name Alex Soojungkim Pang
Location Slicon Valley, California
Web http://www.contem...
Bio I study people, technology, and the worlds they make. Author of Taming the Digital Monkey: From Perpetual Distraction to Contemplative Computing.