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[LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Reading And A Box Brought It Back

by CronoDAS
30th Jan 2016
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[LINK] How A Lamp Took Away My Reading And A Box Brought It Back
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[-]Kaj_Sotala9y140

Interestingly, Brienne just posted a rather similar story, though for her the environment's effect on her behavior is much more immediately obvious than in Ferrett's case.

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[-]Houshalter9y50

He's posting this right after he got a new kindle. Of course if you buy a fancy new device you are going to use it more at first. Let's see if, a year later, he continues reading in bed, or goes back to his phone.

I know that sounds overly cynical, but I have made minor changes to my life that made big improvements. And I wanted to post about them going "hey guys this one weird trick totally changed my life!" And then a week later I was back to my old habits. The enthusiasm around the new idea turned out to be more important than the change itself.

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[-]Gunslinger9y40

Relevant, perhaps.

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[-]Elo9y40

Ferrett is great. Highly reccommend for both his fiction and his blogging.

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