Quick thinking and rapid reaction times depend on cholesterol, too, because the waxy molecules are the building blocks of the sheaths that insulate neurons and speed up electrical transmissions.
So to start off with I want to give you a very quick scan of my 20 year story as a designer and my experience of going from design to design thinking at IDEO.
It just struck me as just so devastating and just how can you focus on school and how can you even think about homework when those are the circumstances that you're living in?
When I faced difficult work, like thinking through an article idea or editing the same draft for the hundredth time, for example, a more sinister screen would draw me in.
The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want, the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that, the better.
But before we get started, I want you to take a moment to think: does anyone know what the single most popular style for a house in the United States is today?
In the Shallows, a book about memory and the Internet, Nicholas Carr said the Web was changing the way we think, read and remember. Humans are hunters and hoarders of information.