Really want to read this (and watch the companion documentary on Amazon). David Shields is one of my favourite writers. I quote him often.

Just checking the weather for the next couple of days and it looks like I could quite easily get snow stranded at work!
Probably the most underrated feeling or state of mind that contributes subtlety but most powerfully to mental health and contentment is gratitude. There is always something to be grateful for. Even if it’s for something you don’t have, like chronic pain for instance. A bad day can always be worse.
So here we go with micro.blog… Haven’t the faintest how I’ll use it or if I even will. First impressions seem to indicate that it lends itself to informal, quick content but we’ll see I guess…
Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and from other forms.