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Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
In short, to enjoy the kind of experience you want rather than enduring the kind that you feel stuck with, you have to take charge of your attention.
Winifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Decrease the volume and size but increase the sophistication of your activities and possessions. Measure prosperity by less activity, not more. Do fewer useless things.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
‘The way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention – the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress,’ Maggie Jackson writes in Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Ill With Want
- Consolidate your caring.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
And the life you will see incrementally taking shape, in the rearview mirror, will be one that meets the only definitive measure of what it means to have used your weeks well: not how many people you helped, or how much you got done; but that working within the limits of your moment in history, and your finite time and talents, you actually got aro
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- Downsize your digs. A smaller home means