Weekly Download 15.8

To avoid looking like the old guy with Ray Ban aviators trying to look cool, check out how teens currently view the various social media tools. Written by an actual teen.

Iphone Killer: the Secret History of the Apple Watch is an interesting chronicle of the watch’s development.

In The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, author/neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explains how our brains are overloaded by the data in our lives today, and how we try to cope and compensate. Learn more by reading the Wall Street Journal’s review. I found it interesting, given the topic, that Levitin himself had a hard time being succinct—the book runs 496 pages. Perhaps his brain was overloaded.