I recently finished reading Tiffany Schlain’s book “24/6”, which encourages taking a weekly “technology shabbat” where you abstain from your usual screens – such as your phone, computer, TV, and devices, for a period of 24 hours once a week. Persuaded that a little time away from the computer was valuable, I decided to give […]
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When life gets you down, it’s worth remembering that anybody with internet access can freely download and read the entire Harvard Classics – thousands of hours of cultivated quality reading that would have been the envy of virtually anyone in history. In a spontaneous (and perhaps over-ambitious) desire to read the whole thing, I began
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It’s been a while since I dragged myself off of Twitter and its many cousins – for those who use social media frequently, the phantom limb of its absence is often keenly felt. Many people find, despite their conscious effort, that they’ve brainlessly opened up Twitter, Reddit or Tiktok, and had been scrolling for minutes
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As the new year approaches, many of us are planning the year to come. The old New Years Resolution is still a common practice, though at times the stats can seem a bit discouraging. According to one 2017 study, of the 41% of Americans who set new Years Resolution, only 9% felt like they’d successfully
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Many of us have an idea of morality and virtue, but if pressed to define it, I imagine we might struggle. Many of us have become disentangled from religion in the empirical modern world, and ethics can become fuzzy without the moral authority of religion to shape it for us. One should be wary of
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One of the most formative books I ever read on the fallibility of human decisionmaking was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahnemann. Kahnemann’s book is chock full of interesting case studies, as well as examples that exploit a bias and encourage you to try to form conclusions yourself, showcasing the sometimes hilarious,
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I hardly consider myself a paragon of self-control – we all have our vices and addictions, whether it’s alcohol, social media, or sugar. It can be incredibly difficult sometimes to muster the self-control to rein in these impulses, but certain shifts in mindset can provide a valuable tool. A year or two ago I read
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If you’re a Notion user, odds are you’ve played with it as a task manager or to-do list app. Today I’m going to talk about how to integrate your task list with a reward system, to help motivate yourself to check off tasks. This method was inspired by an app called Habitica, which ‘gamifies’ your
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I used to consider the ability to read a lot of books a good in and of itself. I kept a list of every book I finished, and set myself reading goals of finishing 3 or 4 a month – child’s play for some of our more prodigious readers out there. Today I want to
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Let’s take a minute to revisit a classic study method developed in the 1940s, and bring it up to speed with modern technology to really enhance its versatility. Using this method you’ll be able to seamlessly connect your thinking to the important concepts, create digital flashcards of key terms for yourself, and pull information from
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