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Exercise: Who Am I Now? For a single conversation or even a whole day, try showing up for life as someone with no history, no narrative. Notice what it’s like to live without a story, without a preconceived idea of who you are and what’s happened to you. Drop “before now” and let there be only “now.” Notice who you are (or become) in the absence of a self-story. Notice how it feels to be free of your story on you.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
I don’t think that e-readers are going to be a cure-all for everyone in need of cultivating better and longer attention. But I do think that my experience suggests that it’s not reasonable to think of “technology”—in the usual vaguely pejorative meaning of that word—as the enemy of reading. The codex is itself a technology, and a supremely sophisticated one, but even digital electronic technologies vary tremendously: e-readers are by any measure far less distracting than an iPad or a laptop. It’s at least possible for new technologies to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
A book worth reading:
[*Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism*](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fapp.thestorygraph.com%2Fbooks%2F51c3c209-fca4-4cb3-afbc-ff5ed60e2e75%3Futm_source=DenseDiscovery-276/1/0100018dc335b931-f58ebea6-67ef-4c70-8014-cbced3479dd0-000000/0Gekjb-tb0PrWygBGCIvaV04WMRKG_NIe940HbSYx9w=340) lived up to its gripping title. The book helped me realise how stale the idea of capitalism that we cling onto is, and how related discourse keeps us frozen in the arguments of the past. All the while, the rug gets pulled out from under us.
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