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As a counterstrategy, keep a “done list,” which starts empty first thing in the morning, and which you then gradually fill with whatever you accomplish through the day. Each entry is another cheering reminder that you could, after all, have spent the day doing nothing remotely constructive—and look what you did instead!
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Such a society, in which modern technologies serve politically interrelated individuals rather than managers, I will call “convivial.”
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
How was I (how are any of us) to do other than that which we, at that time, actually do?
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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