Are You Going to Do What Master Near Says?

Pacts are what we call pre commitment devices. Pre commitment devices when we make a promise with ourselves, with some one else, or with a technology to make sure that as a last line of defence against distraction. In the odyssey, written by homer over 25 hundred years ago, thes story of this sailor who has to sail iship past the island of the sirens. He knows he might get distracted and takes precautions - bees wax in their ears so they can't hear the siren song. The plan works! And he's able to sail his ship past the island and return his crew safely home. This is the ultimate message of the book, is that there is no