Enjoy your finite attention. You are going to receive more demands upon your attention than you have time for. You will get too much email and, by all kinds of methods online and off, you'll find out about too many cool links and shows and books and hobbies and ideas for anyone to explore in one lifetime. Embrace this. If you're walking on the beach and pick up every shell you see, it will impair—not increase—your enjoyment. Pass things by without anxiety. In other words, delete, archive, recycle, and unsubscribe. Don't let things pile up in the hope that you can get to them someday. Let the
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