My first exposure to ebooks was through the Kindle platform. I had money saved from a summer internship, and (among other things) used it to purchase a then-new third-generation Kindle. While I have continued to enjoy some aspects of paper, my Kindle had distinct advantages—most notably that it was actually lighter than many of the books I was reading. With it, I was able to maintain longer reading sessions without having to deal with my arms getting sore.

Here’s a funny phrase: “What do you want to spend your life on?”

It refers, of course, to what you’d like your life’s work to be. But it also has, if you take it perhaps too literally, some other linguistic layers of meaning to it.

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I am becoming increasingly convinced that the folk saying “I’ll believe it when I see it” is wrong, at least some of the time. Or at least, people have a remarkably predictable ability to ignore seemingly convincing evidence in certain situations, when that evidence appears to contradict closely held beliefs. I’ve started calling this the “I’ll see it when I believe it” phenomenon.