Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things

Starling just in terms of how much two hours of sleep can change how you are?

Yeah! You like to think that you are this person, right? “I am me, and the way I move through the world is as me.” But I'm not this one person. I'm a very different me on five hours of sleep than on eight hours of sleep, to the point that it may as well be different peopl... See more

Nowadays, there are four things that are gonna decide if I have a good day. Did I sleep enough? Did I connect deeply with people I love? Did I get some time to myself? Did I make choices for my body that felt good—like, did I take a good walk, did I eat healthy, did I exercise? If I get those four things in place, usually my days are pretty good.

People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own attentio... See more