Yearly reminder that @worrydream.com has a frequently updated catalog of some of the very best material relevant to computation / user interface design over here: worrydream.com/refs/

I read Four Thousand Weeks by @oliverburkeman.com
a while ago. Feel that the philosophy it embodies is yet to make in roads into user interfaces of productivity systems. For example, this idea of treating your to-read pile as a river: oliverburkeman.com/river

Here’s something mindblowingly counterintuitive – Higher food prices can reduce poverty!

As a person in a country like India, it is almost blasphemous, for many (majority?) here survive on cheap food they buy with their backbreaking / stressful labour: www.tabledebates.org/research-lib...

I read these four books over the last couple of months and felt they had an uncanny thematic coherence. This is an attempt to pull together these threads to point at a certain lingering idea that could potentially unify these narratives.