Put Down the Phone: A Series

 237 phone prompts a day?

In the Work

I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself not for others - what no other man will ever know.

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

The Coleman Hughes TED Talk That Upset Some TED Staffers

 

Put Down the Phone

 Why do people turn to smartphones during social interactions?

Rare Books

 

There are some people who are rare books.

When Wimps Aid Thugs

 New York Post: Douglas Murray on how stores surrendered to looters.

First Paragraph

I am a sick man . . . I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, I don't know a fig about my sickness, and I am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine and doctors. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine. (I'm sufficiently educated not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, sir, I refuse to be treated out of spite. Now, you will certainly not be so good to understand this. Well, sir, but I understand it. I will not, of course, be able to explain to you precisely who is going to suffer in this case from my spite; I know perfecty well that I will in no way "muck things up" for the doctors by not taking their treatment; I know better than anyone that by all this I am harming only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't get treated, it is out of spite. My liver hurts; well, then let it hurt even worse. 

- From Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

On Target

 Cultural Offering has Charlie Munger's one-liners.

Get Ready for the Weekend

 

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