We blame Facebook for everything nowadays. Should we blame Facebook for eating disorders, too? A new study says, probably. Let’s back up. The easiest way to make yourself unhappy is to compare yourself to other people. Like this: Her house is bigger! His girlfriend is prettier! She has an easy [Keep reading]
Beginning tonight and into tomorrow, thousands of Americans will celebrate the National Day of Unplugging. They’ll attend music festivals where cell phones must be checked at the door. They will go on walks. They will talk to each other! You should try it to. If not for a day, then [Keep reading]
Technology has become a source of tension in relationships for millions of American couples, according to study released this week by the Pew Research Center. One in four adults — and nearly one in two young adults aged 18-29 — say they feel their spouse or partner has been distracted [Keep reading]
“Look at the Cadillac in my driveway!” the advertisement, which debuted during the Olympics, suggests. “It proves I don’t know how to take vacations! In fact, I’m hostile to vacations. Heck, you think the astronauts who went to the moon, or….Les Paul or… Muhammad Ali ever took a vacation?” As [Keep reading]
Just how much data leaks out of a person every day? Perhaps a terabyte, guessed Rapid7’s Tod Beardsley. A terabyte! Every touch of a cell phone, ever block you drive, every card you swipe – heck, even while you are asleep — firms are constructing a digital mirror image of [Keep reading]
The national conversation has begun on the problem of overwork, and even what I call “binge working.” There’s a lot of horribles we all already know about overwork — it hurts relationships, it impairs judgment, and it even (ironically) hurts productivity. Add to that list that it increases your liklihood [Keep reading]
(So happy to be back on CNBC and NBCNews.com again. I’m scheduled to be on television Friday night — NBC Nightly with Brian Williams — to discuss this story). A toxic combination of digital leashes, the hypnotic effects of technology, economic anxiety, and caffeine is encouraging workers to push [Keep reading]
There’s been years of media reports ringing the alarm bell about binge drinking; where’s the horror at the new epidemic of binge working? When friends brag they are pulling all-nighters at work, please don’t laugh. Please tell them to get help. If you haven’t noticed this disturbing trend, I’ll lay [Keep reading]
Now that fall has fully arrived, can I play a game with you? What did you do on your summer vacation? I don’t want to know where you went, though you can tell me that, I bet it would have been somewhere exotic like somewhere in Southeast Asia, did you [Keep reading]
Once upon a time, Labor Day was a chance to take a break, and to honor those who fought to create the proper work-life balance. Sounds like a fairy tale now. For many Americans, Monday was just another day to labor — if not at an office or factory, through [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan