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Stop thinking so much about the “problem,” taking everyone else’s inventory—diagnosing and repairing the cause of your discontent. And instead, turn your focus to your own responses and attitude; attend to who you want to be in a world that will always be not entirely to your liking. Then you can create a good life without changing anyone or anything.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
By the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the religious impulse behind these regimens had been long forgotten. The monastery gave way to the factory. Ritual dissolved into routine.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
Sorry, but for the past 20 years the mountain bike has barely met the definition of a bicycle; it’s just another sporting good you see hanging off the back of a pickup truck:
Evil Is as Evil Does
Eben Weiss
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