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We learn to compete with each other in a scarcity-based economy that denies and destroys the abundant world we actually live in.
Emergent Strategy
Adrienne Maree Brown
Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
And perhaps the cunning of memory, of fiction, and of life only ever amounts to this: to step into that spectral gallery of pictures we do not remember having painted, but that our senses and time have composed and conserved for us, that another painted for us, and to forever redo our apprenticeship by turning ourselves into copyists—critics, confectioners, kitschifiers, curators, disciples, dissectors, engravers, iconoclasts, restorers, counterfeiters, high priests, translators…)
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