Sublime
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“the Law of the Vital Few.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a symptom of deficient vitality, and observed a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing
utilitarian
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
without making ourselves miserable in the process through overload, overwhelm, and hard-to-keep-up systems.
Matthew Aaron Perman • What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
He spent thirty-five years experimenting with simplifying his diet.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
He spent a day each week without speaking.