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It’s believed that the origins of mazagran coffee date back to 1840. It was during this time that France invaded and colonised Algeria – a north African country which borders Morocco and Tunisia.
What Is Mazagran Coffee & How Do You Make It?
Isabelle Mani SanMax
If you’re feeling not just frustrated and challenged, but helpless, isolated, and trapped, like you want to hide in a cave, or like you’d rather put your hand in a toilet full of tadpoles than spend one more day doing the thing, you should definitely quit whatever it is.
Burnout
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
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
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