You should expect one kind of panic: you are on a long plane ride (say, four hours), sitting in an aisle seat, and all you have in your bag is a thick academic PDF. On the one hand, you’ve got four hours of clock time; but as you look at your screen, you realize that […]

Here’s what happens: You’re about to attend a book club and realize there is still dozens of pages remaining on the book. And it’s getting late, you need to go to bed soon. Panic sets in. “I don’t know if I’m going to finish this thing!” There’s a solution to remove this worry, a calculator […]

You have two hundred pages left in a thick history book and you have a three-hour flight. According to the airline app, you’ll land on time. Your gut say otherwise. It takes forever to board. Meal service cuts into your flow. Every time you pause, it add up fast. Here, planning is better then hoping. […]

A 40-minute train ride, to most, is like a 40-minute reading block. That doesn’t work out well. In real life, there’s friction. It takes two minutes to unlock your phone. One minute to find your last page. The conductor calls for platform change. Before long, it’s ten minutes. That wasn’t your lack of discipline. That […]