One 2017 study from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas concluded that the mere presence of your smartphone can reduce “cognitive capacity.”
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
A very conservative estimate is that banning handguns would save 10,000 lives a year, just from thwarted suicides. That’s a lot of people.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
The best example of when the Omega Speedmaster Professional paid off for NASA was during the Apollo 13 mission, when all power was lost on the Command Module. The only things the astronauts had to time the critical burns to bring the Apollo 13 safely back to earth were their Omega Speedmasters. Most critical was the last burn, which had to be a precise 14 seconds. The commander’s chronograph was used to time the burn. The watch was exact, and the rest is history.
A Man and His Watch
Matt Hranek