To Watch: Ted Talk Tuesday in Motion

Theory: Tuesdays are more difficult than Wednesdays because they stand as a precursor to the Humpday that has unfailingly proven itself insufferable week and week again.

At 1 pm on the aforementioned, a preliminary case of the Brain Fries seems to set in as it will, causing mental preoccupation that takes the mind far from its desired check list of things that must be achieved by day’s end — but the lag has heretofore been handled far too indulgently.

Watching hours come and go while contemplating which shoes you will certainly not purchase in the next fifteen minutes seems as fruitless an endeavor as, I’m going to say it again, brushing your teeth with simple syrup. So how does one quell this burning desire to waste time in order to get on with the day without actually feeling like time is being wasted?

I’m gonna propose: A Ted Talk. Another one of my New Year’s resolutions was to listen to at least one a week, which, granted, is an underachievement at its best and an honest-though-dismal note on how I delegate my time at its worst, but so far I’ve done a good job executing the goal and have found that in forgoing the e-commerce sites and Instagram feeds of distraction’s yore, I have become a better-rounded shell of a human, with a wealth of knowledge on the topic of exactly nothing but with at least a wireframe that allows me to fake it.

Most recently, I’ve co-opted the opinion of Stephen Cave on the topic of our inability to digest the notion of one of the only inevitabilities of our humanity, which is death.

Any particular favorites you want to share or comments to propose — you know, in the name of the Brain Fries — on the above? Here’s to Wednesday…