Tom

I usually have one fiction/ biography for bed time reading. If it’s good, I might blaze through it in a few days, then take a break. Sometimes it’s a re-read of a personal favorite.

Then I have one nonfiction book that I’m trying to “do” - maybe a how-to or self improvement book. This is usually read slowly with extensive notes / reflective... See more

It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more