Alive Time vs Dead Time: • This is a concept from Robert Greene. He has written many formidable books about mastery, war, power. This concept relates to how you choose to spend your time. It relates closely to what David Foster Wallace was advising on where to direct your attention (“This is water”). • This motivates one to use…
Making Faces: • Check out this fairly technical article about facial expressions as social tools. Plenty of sociologic jargon, talking about an “externalist, functionalist view of facial displays.” • The general idea is that the facial expressions we make could be more to induce feelings or behaviors in others than to actually express what is on our mind.…
Wisdom from the ER: • A patient told us that a very angry 5-foot-4 bald man would be looking for her. She was in a bad accident and she was thinking about her frantic husband. Minutes and even hours can fly by in the hospital, and this time feels like eternity to family members who are not informed. Usually…
Protect Yourself: • Sadly, in medicine we are at risk of violence from the people we are trying to help, and must be resolved not to fight back. This article has many pearls, the most pragmatic being the three positions you can stand in when encountering trouble: the thinker pose, the timeout pose, and the hands up. All poses…
Light is a Drug: • Thanks Ashlee Melendez for this article that is absolutely packed with concisely presented information on healthy light-dark cycles. Article on BBC about Linda Geddes, who spent two weeks with no artificial light. I am bookmarking the article and have printed numerous references. Looking forward to her book (Chasing the Sun, early 2019). Two…
