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In short, once you start reading a book on the Kindle—and this is equally true of the other e-readers I’ve tried—the technology generates an inertia that makes it significantly easier to keep reading than to do anything else. E-readers, unlike many other artifacts of the digital age, promote linearity—they create a forward momentum that you can reverse if you wish, but not without some effort.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
When it comes to Make Time, my go-to tactics are:
• Schedule Your Highlight (#8)
• Log Out (#18)
• Ignore the News (#25)
• Set a Visible Timer (#52)
• Eat Without Screens (#225)
Making Time at Work With Connor Swenson
John Zeratsky
It is hard to pinpoint where this idea — that it is inherently bad to be disabled — originated, but in the West, examples go as far back as ancient Greece. The linking of virtue and beauty with “normality” appears in Plato’s account of Socrates’ dialogue with Crito, in which Socrates asserts that “the good life, the beautiful life and the just life are the same” and that life is not “worth living with a body that is corrupted and in bad condition.”
Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability? - The New York Times
Bryan W. Van Norden
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