#life (26 links)
- The quiet grief of adult friendship timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Competence as Tragedy crowprose.com
What does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it's dying?
The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of satisfaction when fulfilled. But the person who spends a year learning calculus becomes someone different, someone who can see patterns in the world that were previously invisible, who has expanded the range of things they're capable of caring about, who has Been Through It.The person who checks their notifications is, afterward, exactly the same person who wanted to check their notifications five minutes ago.
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- To Get Good, Go After The Metagame commoncog.com
- The Church of Interruption | Sam Bleckley sambleckley.com
Via Popular.
The spectre of competition means that at work, school, everywhere we think we have to work/study/run as fast as we possibly can, all the time. But, says Bjergegaard, much of that is counterproductive. "We get tired, we don't work as well under constant stress. We don't always need to be there anyway – many of my best ideas have come when I'm running, or on holiday."
There is a company that sells radar equipment to the police as well as radar detectors to the public. Clorox is one of the world’s worst polluters of water, and also sells Brita filters to get the bad stuff out of the water again. Lawyers create mazes that you have to hire a lawyer to escape. Similarly social software both creates and cures FOMO. If you didn’t know that party was going on, you’d be home contentedly reading your latest New Yorker. But since you do, you hungrily watch each new tweet.
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- Mental Detox Week : iain tait | crackunit.com crackunit.com
Adbusters have changed their Turnoff TV week into Mental Detox Week, its tagline is Escape the Fantasy.
"A "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease."
- we are what we do wearewhatwedo.org
We’re here to change the world (just a small thing then) and have fun while we’re doing it. We believe that each of us has the power to make a difference, and if enough of us believe this, then together we can change the world.
- 'Superfoods' Everyone Needs my.webmd.com
Experts say more than a dozen easy-to-find 'superfoods' can do wonders for your health.
- Best Tool For the Job » Ten Things You Can Do Today to Jump-start Success marcusvorwaller.com
If you really want to live longer, then you can start with your attitude. Your way of thinking can not only impact the quality of your life, but also how long you actually live.
- What Should I Do With My Life? (by Jeremy Zawodny) jeremy.zawodny.com