Each Friday I am going to attempt to give you high quality reading material for the weekend, in the form of fifteen links from the previous week.

Here we go — I hope you enjoy:

Technology/Business/Productivity/Etc.

• The false choice of mediocrity
• Simplify
• Why Only Yuppies Feel Busy: An Economic Theory
• 50 Things I’ve Learned About Publishing a Weblog
• How much of happiness is under our control? How can we make the most of it?
• Sitting for More Than Three Hours a Day Cuts Life Expectancy
• Local food isn’t bad
• The Procrastination-Killing Tactic To Try Now (Or In 10 Minutes)
• Monetizing digital attention
• What Is It to be Intellectually Humble?

Politics

• The Long Run History of Taxes on the Rich
• What does broadening the base entail?
• Poverty in the 50 years since ‘The Other America,’ in five charts
• Will The Affordable Care Act Kill Jobs?
• The Slow Death of the American Dream
• I was a right-wing child star
• Taxes at the Top
• As Income Inequality Widens, Rich Presidential Candidates Dominate
• The Myth That Obama’s Tax Plan Would Target Small Businesses
• A Manifesto for Economic Sense

A few bonus posts, since it’s Friday the 13th.