There is no greater gift than time.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I... →
Joshua Foer
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you... →
There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time... →
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once... →
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in... →
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite... →
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other... →
People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and... →
Robert Fogel