One thing I've come to realize over time is that I think much better on my feet.
I've even injured myself a few times by reading books while shuffling around carelessly.
Nothing has been worse for my intellectual life than desk-locked work.
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Ok, Polish air quality hasn't been great, either.
The first and biggest impression I had in Norway (at the airport of all places) was that there was actual fucking air again. Extreme difference.