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He told me bluntly that instead of acknowledging our limitations and trying to live within them, we have—en masse—fallen for an enormous delusion.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Yet there are so many ways that people can mess things up, so many ways our human tendencies toward bias, sloppiness, error, and fraud can get in the way. Ultimately, we’re such bad detectives, at least by the standards of my young self. We haven’t figured out how to see without being seen. We’re far from all-powerful. We fail at omniscience. Even
... See moreRachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
specter.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control
In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
an “ecology of talent.”
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
So why is Alissa Rubin urged to regularly interrupt this necessarily deep work to provide, for free, shallow content to a service run by an unrelated media company based out of Silicon Valley? And perhaps even more important, why does this behavior seem so normal to most people?
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
