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Is it possible in our age of advanced technology to recall the spiritual dimension of repetition? Or has it been conclusively subsumed into the deadening drumbeat of modern life?
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
Any strategy for limiting your work in progress will help here (here), but perhaps the simplest is to keep two to-do lists, one “open” and one “closed.” The open list is for everything that’s on your plate and will doubtless be nightmarishly long. Fortunately, it’s not your job to tackle it: instead, feed tasks from the open list to the closed one—that is, a list with a fixed number of entries, ten at most. The rule is that you can’t add a new task until one’s completed. (You may also require a third list, for tasks that are “on hold” until someone else gets back to you.)
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Scott wanted A.I. to empower the kind of resourceful but digitally unschooled people he’d grown up among. This was a striking argument—one that some technologists would consider willfully naïve, given widespread concerns about A.I.-assisted automation eliminating jobs such as the grocery-store cashier, the factory worker, or the movie extra.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
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