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Field notes are powerful for several reasons. By encouraging you to capture your thoughts while listening to podcasts, reading articles, or even during conversations, they help you become a more active observer of your own life. They take very little time; a few seconds whenever you observe something interesting. And because they are timestamped, they help make it easier to identify under what conditions you work, learn, and feel best.
Self-Anthropology: Become Your Own Anthropologist With Personal Field Notes
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
We can understand, however, that there is no self-enclosed self who exists in separation from her experience of life. This understanding has been compared, rather smartly I think, with waking up.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
The convenience regime sells us a peculiar bargain: “I'll free you from the messiness of human existence so you can focus on being yourself more.”
But aren't you the sum of the tasks you spend your time on? Isn't there something fundamentally human about wrestling some messy reality rather than just managing its digital alternative?
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
Simone
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