The Walton Firm Memos

This piece on time perception briefly touches on how in a high-adrenaline situation, people get a kind of heightened focus and clarity:
In a critical situation, a walnut-size area of the brain called the amygdala kicks into high gear, … forcing everything to attend to the situation at hand. When the amygdala gets involved, memories are [...]

I just finished reading Infinite Jest for the second time. The first time I read it it was sort of just generally impressive, and made me a lot more interested in reading books in general, but was really far too much material for me to really absorb. The second time through was a lot cooler, [...]