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each part—no matter how demonic seeming—has a secret, painful history to share of how it was forced into its role and came to carry burdens it doesn’t like that continue to drive it.
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz and Alanis Morissette
most knowledge workers who claim to single task are actually primarily working on one thing at a time, but punctuating this work with a frequent series of *just checks* (quick glances at text messages, email inboxes, slack channels, social media feeds, etc…*just in case* something important has arrived).
This type of pseudo-focus might seem better than old school multitasking (in which you try to work on multiple primary tasks simultaneously), but attention residue theory teaches us that it might be just as bad.
A Productivity Lesson from a Classic Arcade Game
Study Hacks
In practical terms, three rules of thumb are especially useful for harnessing the power of patience as a creative force in daily life. The first is to develop a taste for having problems
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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