Charles Atlas’s “Dynamic Tension” program was to bodybuilding: a common-sense, practical program (Location 33)
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Note: .toread .exercise
Forget for a moment how books should be read: Why should they be read? The first reason—the first sequentially in the story that follows but also the first in order of importance—is that reading books can be intensely pleasurable. Reading is one of the great human delights. (Location 107)
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Note: .reading
think Bacon would have applauded Clay Shirky’s comment that we suffer not from “information overload” but from “filter failure.” Bacon’s famous sentence is really a strategy for filtering. (Location 1447)
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Note: .filter we suffer from filter failure rather than information ovrrload