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It is not hard to grasp the appeal: efficiency was the promise of doing what you already did, only better, more cheaply, and in less time. What could be wrong with that? Unless you happened to be on the sharp end of attempts to treat humans like machines – like the workers of Bethlehem Steel – there wasn’t an obvious downside.
Why Time Management Is Ruining Our Lives
Oliver Burkeman
We can experience profound joy if we give ourselves permission to. Instead we look outside ourselves for a perfect situation. And it is the act of looking that takes us away from our happiness.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
My largest barrier towards actually getting things done ended up often being my preconceptions for how to get things done.
Gap Year Updates #1: Staying Productive in the Time of Corona
Matthew Shu
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