The medical evidence is compelling.

The body rehydrates in particular ways. It's optimised for small, frequent amounts of water. If you gulp down a bottle of water all at once, there are few benefits. In fact, most of the water passes straight through leaving you as dehydrated as before.

Memory is like that too.

Heard of spaced repetition? The mind seems to retain information better if you absorb small amounts that are repeated after a time. That suggests information overload is like gulping too much water - it goes straight through leaving no trace.

That book you read last year - how much of it do you remember? If you are like many - not much, if any. Tiago Forte went as far as to change his whole approach.

Rather than read lots of books, he now reads few. And he uses the extra time to synthesise them so he can make the case better than the author to teach others. Seneca, a Stoic philosopher, argued that unless one can teach a subject, one does not know it.

The stars align.

Sipping. It's the new gulping. Try it out for yourself.