You Must Change Your Life

This is a special piece of writing about a special place where humans focus on being human. I don’t think us clankers would be welcome there - nor should we be.

Read the whole piece and think about how you can cultivate the habits of mind this place aims to cultivate.

“Attention doesn’t just mean attending to a book in order to get more reading done; it is also the social attention required for shared and often creative undertakings: poetry recitation, board games, flower arranging, and as we discovered, sock puppetry. Everything that happens is co-created: it’s not just what’s said around the seminar table. It’s also enjoying the unadulterated presence of everyone sharing the experience with you. And it doesn’t take long before you find yourself marveling that you might ever feel the need to look at a notification on your phone.”