Archive for non-fiction

83 Yellow highlight | Location: 154 (Answer: If 1 percent of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else.) Yellow highlight | Location: 177 If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard...

56 Yellow highlight | Location: 265 Shared lucid dreaming. A way out of the dull persistence of physicality. Yellow highlight | Location: 468 Jewish admonition to “choose life” in a children’s book about Jewish culture. There was a logic to it, since death would come soon enough, no matter what, so choosing life was at least a reasonable...

45 Yellow highlight | Page: 17 This process—in which the brain converts a sequence of actions into an automatic routine—is known as “chunking,” and it’s at the root of how habits form.18 There are dozens—if not hundreds—of behavioral chunks that we rely on every day. Yellow highlight | Page: 20 The problem is that your brain can’t tell...

22 Yellow highlight | Page: 2 but I can’t grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing, so I had to actually get my hands working and write these words. Yellow highlight | Page: 2 Otherwise, I’d never know what running means to me. Yellow highlight | Page: 2 Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Yellow highlight |...