John Black

“Here’s the problem: Many of the systems we’ve developed to help guide our lives–systems like news, education, law, advertising, and so on–arose in, and still assume, an environment of information scarcity. We’re only just beginning to explore what these systems should do for us, and how they need to change, in this new milieu of information abundance.”
― James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

“To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery,” wrote Rousseau in The Social Contract, “while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom”
― James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

“How long does it take for habits to grow to their full expression? There is no universal answer. Any advice you hear about a habit taking twenty-one or sixty days to fully form is not entirely accurate. There is no magic number of days.”
― B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

“the fundamental point that what we think of as “side effects” are misnamed. In a system there are no side effects—just effects, anticipated or not.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence