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“If [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”
“Churchill said that we shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us. We made machines to help us think, and now the machines think for us.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“These days, the old rules no longer apply, but new ones have yet to be written.”
― The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
― The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
“Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a “symptom of deficient vitality,” and observed “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“Because that was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Have they been educated to the level of their intellectual ability or ambition? Is their use of free time engaging, meaningful, and productive? Have they formulated solid and well-articulated plans for the future? Are they (and those they are close to) free of any serious physical health or economic problems? Do they have friends and a social life? A stable and satisfying intimate partnership? Close and functional familial relationships? A career—or, at least, a job—that is financially sufficient, stable and, if possible, a source of satisfaction and opportunity? If the answer to any three or more of these questions is no, I consider that my new client is insufficiently embedded in the interpersonal world and is in danger of spiraling downward psychologically because of that.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,734 books
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147 friends
559 books
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37 friends
1,306 books
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162 friends
224 books
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24 friends
507 books
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134 friends
7 books
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94 friends
288 books
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50 friends
5 books
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32 friends
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