Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than eve
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works. That the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive. And that, just like stargazers of the sixteenth century had to reimagine the cosmos by placing the sun at the center of the solar system, so we need to fundamentally ret... See more
Casper ter Kuile • The Power of Ritual: How to Create Meaning and Connection in Everything You Do
modernity is not wrong to have an infatuation with motion. You can’t have resonance through disinterest. The good life is not found in indolence. But when motion gets cut loose (for the sake of more motion) from a larger reality of love, it becomes a toothy gremlin, wanting to consume everything in its path. Motion for the sake of further motion le
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