The summer is an excellent time to put day-to-day life in perspective. Reflect on things, and broaden your horizon. Learn things not directly related to work. Currently, I am spending some time off reading A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine. The book is a nice introduction to stoicism: What the Stoics believed, why they believed it and how you can, with the benefit of hindsight, replace the sometimes incorrect reasoning that underpinned their beliefs and come out the other end with...