Reader's Note: The new schedule is no schedule

If you could download 1,000 books into your mental library with a click, would you?

You would retain a mental inventory of the pages, an instantaneous memory of every line and plot point, a photographic knowledge of page numbers in a second.

An adjacent hypothetical is, if you could maintain perfect nutrition with a once-daily IV drip, would you?

Sure, it would be nice to offload the mental bandwidth of plotting meals, but what about wandering through grocery stores? Catching up with a friend ov...