Is Google primarily a tool for telling you that the world is more or less as you believe it is? How often do you take a position on an issue just by looking around and discerning what the “right” opinion to have is, then selectively learning the facts that justify that belief? Don’t feel too bad, this is probably most of what politics is.

The objective? avoid mental drag"Imagine that your brain is a computer. At the beginning of the day, your brain powers up and you have 100 percent of your computer memory available to use on your life. The only problem is that every time you add a task to your to-do list, a little bit of your computer memory goes toward that task."