Rule of Fifty
I don't often invoke this rule, but I don't want to lose track of it, either. > From Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust, the Rule of 50 will change your life: Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a…
Walk Again
> World Cup to begin with mind-controlled exoskeleton kick http://t.co/ncoDg5Wom9 the Walk Again Project. #BCI [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BCI&src=hash] — Richard Yonck (@ryonck) January 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ryonck/statuses/419540124708261888]…
Analog Reading
> In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading http://t.co/33sPcTRDXK #Read26Indy [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Read26Indy&src=hash] — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) January 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/jcufaude/statuses/419514154995572736] Jeffrey Cufaude and David Mikics do one heck of a job encouraging me to read more.…
My Ideal Bookshelf
I've been enjoying thumbing through a copy of My Ideal Bookshelf. The book collects lists of favorite books and invites readers to build their own: > Select a small shelf of books that represent you—the books that have changed your life, that have made you who you…
Ambition
A chance mention in Michelle Huneven's Isabel Archer, Great-Grandmother [https://medium.com/book-keeping-1/dc89b6529185] has at least pointed me in the direction of an ambitious (for me) project. Huneven wrote "The unexamined will of intelligent woman—so vivid and unstoppable in Isabel Archer and Dorothea Brooks, and…
Missed Perspective
This morning I remembered something I recorded long ago [http://mikeschultz.posthaven.com/perspective], in a different blog. It belongs here. > Shira Toeplitz provides the perspective [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bringing-dad-home-in-the-overhead-bin/2013/07/26/668c97c2-f088-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html] I've been looking for in explaining my stroke experience.…
Mystery Revealed
Ben and Tarka made it to the South Pole last week, and their blog reveals why they were happy to come upon it at night and to spend no time there: it's not exactly a desolate or romantic place [http://scottexpedition.com/blog/a-big-day-out]. > In short, I&…
Reflection
I spotted two suggestions for end-of-year reflection today. In The New York Times, Ross Douthat's op-ed column, Confessions of a Columnist [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/opinion/sunday/douthat-confessions-of-a-columnist.html?smid=pl-share] , was an acknowledgement of his "three biggest analytic errors" of the year.…