Join 📚 Jim's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jim's read, .
Like I said, this all happens automatically but what’s really cool is that you can take conscious control of the process:
• By intentionally narrowing your visual field, you can increase alertness.
• By intentionally expanding your visual field, you can increase relaxation.
How and Why I Use Vision as a Productivity Tool
Charlotte Grysolle
I note that a new edition of Seneca’s treatise has recently been published by Princeton University Press under the title How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management. Indeed, Princeton has a whole series called “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
This machine-approximated version of bokeh signifies amateurism rather than craft. Hobbyists who dislike such technological tricks might seek out older digital cameras, or they might flee back to film. But the new iPhone cameras, more than most users realize, are forging a template that is reshaping the nature of image-making along with our expectations of what a photograph should be.
Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
newyorker.com
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise