If we haven’t notably advanced our academic specialty, no amount of to-do list martyrdom can save us. - Cal Newport

Stop focusing on these little details,” it told me. “Focus instead on becoming better.

We've become so used to the idea that the only reward for getting better is moving toward higher income and increased responsibilities that we forget that the fruits of pursuing quality can also be harvested in the form of a more sustainable lifestyle.

Giving students iPads or allowing them to film homework assignments on YouTube prepares them for a high-tech economy about as much as playing with Hot Wheels would prepare them to thrive as auto mechanics.