A book is, we know, an unrivaled technology for living more life .
The contemporary internet-abetted image, on the other hand, is a highly potent yet f--ked-up technology for living more life. It comes with all kinds of strings attached, and it has a way of leaving us feeling lonely, lacking, unsatisfied, and jittery.
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
The Era of Summarized Living will remove bias from work and life . One striking lesson I learned while serving on a jury almost twenty years ago was just how bad and biased our memories are, even when our only job is to remember something. In my jury experience, the group routinely recalled a situation or something a witness said one way, only to
The most important rewards of being a parent come from the moment-by-moment physical and psychological joy of being with this particular child, and in that child’s moment-by-moment joy in being with you.