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Because we are injured most by what we do not expect, and because we must expect everything (‘There is nothing which Fortune does not dare’), we must, proposed Seneca, hold the possibility of disaster in mind at all times.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
Other work has shown that while the ability of light to produce a phase advance contributes to its clinical efficacy, this is not limited to subjects who are phase delayed to start with. Rather, it is the size of the phase advance relative to one's sleep rhythm that is most important, with the optimal response achieved with light given 8.5 hours after melatonin onset or 2.5 hours after the sleep midpoint, defined as the midpoint between sleep onset and time of awakening.[Cit](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.31887/DCNS.2007.9.3/rlevitan?scroll=top&needAccess=true#)
The Chronobiology and Neurobiology of Winter Seasonal Affective Disorder
Taylor & Francis
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
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