adulting is realising that the book on distraction, is a distraction, and ditto for the book on focus and concentration and memory, and any of the myriad forms of self-improvement - whether it be the latest from the 'psychology of money' author, or books on learning negotiation, or even that machine learning  or algorithms or sanskrit or yoga book you bought to read....

about GEB we are still undecided. maybe we'll get to it after reading a book on decisiveness. i think chip and dan heath did one.