The Paperback Revolution

We let our knowledge and experiences of the past project into our future, by making concrete predictions that this or that cannot happen due to what happened in the past.

But life is constantly changing, flowing like a river, and does not follow past patterns.

Routine as Ritual: Transforming routines into rituals can imbue mundane tasks with a sense of purpose and presence. For example, making your morning coffee can become a ritualistic moment of mindfulness, where each step, from grinding the beans to pouring...

Uruk was the world’s first large city and completely changed humanity’s ability to store, exchange and replicate information by creating the first writing system in 3200 BCE.

The invention of writing made the unreliable and fallible human memory obsolete and revolutionized...