Chapters 11 & 12

Chapters 11 & 12Vale

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Rolf's Points

(What's mentioned in the book)

When it comes to money, we're tight-fisted. Yet when it comes to our time, we're as spendthrift as can be - even though time is the only commodity with which we really ought to be miserly.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Philosopher

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.

- Thomas Jefferson

Paul Slovic's horsebetting study

Pew Research Center: Psychological Stress and Social Media use

Nobody knows what's happening. The newspapers only pretend as though they do from day to day.

- Max Frisch

Swiss Playwright

Peering into the engine room:

The Disconnect Between News and Understanding - NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, by Gavin Schmidt

Vale's Points

(What's supplemented when Vale was reading)

Time-tracking software

RescueTime - Even though it may not directly help you with time management, taking a cold, hard, brutally honest look at the way you spend your time online is a starting point. You can then use such data to determine what actionable steps you'd like to take in order to tweak your time usage.

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