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Hello!

When I started writing an article/mini-book on mental effort, I thought it would take me a couple of months.

Yeah, right.

Every time I go through it, I find something to add, something to refine, some improvement to be made.

Improvements are great, but at some point you have to decide that it's done. That's where I'm at now, at least with the writing. Once there's a cover image and it's formatted into an ebook, I'm getting it out there.

Stay tuned.

In the meantime, here are a couple of new articles:

Are Colours Easier to Read than See?

While he devoted most of his life to Christianity, John Ridley Stroop will be most remembered for his contribution to psychology...

Are Our Digital Lives Getting too Cumbersome?

In 2015 a report was published regarding a 47 year old autistic man with a hoarding problem....

Other Interesting Stuff

1. A piece of art created by an AI algorithm was sold for $432,500.

2. Thanks to some new photographic technology, we can see a sonic boom in colour.

3. Get an MBAs worth of knowledge from top 10 business schools, it won't cost you anything but time and effort.

4. This video from Aeon makes the case for more boredom.

5. Also from Aeon, this video shows a single-cell develop into a complete organism.

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” —Bertrand Russell

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