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Tools for Thought - David Perell

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As you read this, your mind is active, but your body is still. That’s because computers unleash the mind, but suppress the body. Sitting at a desk all day is debilitating. Artificial exercise is proof of this. Gyms are evidence of an intellectual environment that doesn’t consider our basic need for activity and movement. As Marshall

As you read this, your mind is active, but your body is still. That’s because computers unleash the mind, but suppress the body. Sitting at a desk all day is debilitating. Artificial exercise is proof of this. Gyms are evidence of an intellectual environment that doesn’t consider our basic need for activity and movement. As Marshall McLuhan famously said: “First we shape our tools. Then our tools shape us.” Source: The Humane Representation of Thought The current shape of computers is an accident of history. Computers are relics of the Literate Age when books ran the show. There we

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