Productivity and Happiness Lessons from Plato and Ben Franklin
Editors note: This is a guest post by Chris Tuttle. Chris is an avid cyclist who focuses his intellectual property legal practice on cycling and the outdoor recreation businesses.
I just got done with a great read – Hamlet’s BlackBerry by William Powers. Every page is filled with QuietSpacing® wisdom. Before sharing specifics, a couple words on terminology. This book is about the often dysfunctional relationship we have with the “screens” in our lives. Desktop PCs, handheld smartphones, laptops, iPads, etc. Any electronic device can be a “screen.” The unexamined axiom of our times is that we and our screens should be connected as much as possible, all the time. Connection = good, disconnected = bad. But when we are connected, there is no quiet, there is no space. If our lives and screens are connected 24-7, the promise of QuietSpacing (a more productive and happier life) will forever be out of reach.