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Pot famously supplies an extra measure of perspective, and perspective is very threatening to those who don’t want their authority questioned.
Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that we don’t measure up, that we might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now seems to move. “The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Industry’s fascination with data alchemy is as embarrassing as the 15th-century fascination with muttering Latin mumbo jumbo over iron filings.
The Obscure Art of Data Design
Cassie Kozyrkov
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