How to Live
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How to Live
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Merlin Mann
Thought Technologies
Vices
The News
Parents
Vices
Children
"[Regarding a day full of outrage from the news:] Nobody thinks they want that, but we are all acting like it is exactly what we want."
"All headlines and no story."
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
"On Attention v. Knowledge and Doing More"
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”
CNN Holds Morning Meeting To Decide What Viewers Should Panic About For Rest Of Day
Does the News Do Us Any Good?
Jumps
"Intertial activities vs. self-termianting activities..."
Distraction
Failing to Cultivate One's Talents
Haste