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Translation: When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have wisdom. When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.
From Strength to Strength
Brooks, Arthur C.
The first half of “doing nothing” is about disengaging from the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else. That “something else” is nothing less than time and space, a possibility only once we meet each other there on the level of attention. Ultimately, against the placelessness of an optimized life spent online, I want to argue for a new “placefulness” that yields sensitivity and responsibility to the historical (what happened here) and the ecological (who and what lives, or lived, here).
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
If we read more slowly, won’t that just mean that we get through less text before succumbing to distraction? I’m afraid that just such a result is immensely likely—unless we do some work to alter our habits. That work can be done, and it’s worth doing;
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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