Join 📚 Nicole's Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Nicole's read, .

This means that doing substandard work in any part of their lives feels like a violation of core principles. Rest pulls away from the work involved with improving an experience, a gift, an artistic pursuit, athletic performance, the quality of the presentation, or the delivery of the narrative. It’s hard to justify rest when there’s just so much to be done to improve the quality of your work.

An Overachiever’s Guide to Rest

Elaine Chao

Before Bob Marley, before Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong was the original black superstar.

Smoke Signals

Martin A. Lee

Since 1980, the proportion of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean that develop to a Category 3 or higher has roughly doubled. The biggest shift, due largely to the increase in ocean temperatures, is the storms’ ability to so rapidly intensify, thereby making it that much more difficult to prepare.

Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season | the New Yorker

Lynn Steger Strong

...catch up on these, and many more highlights