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A few years ago, drowning in email, I successfully implemented the system known as Inbox Zero, but I soon discovered that when you get tremendously efficient at answering email, all that happens is that you get much more email.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Therefore Brian recommends that moms and dads be wary of new ideas that arise from studies, especially when the evidence isn’t very strong and the sample size is small. At the same time, influential figures like pediatricians, public health experts, journalists, and book writers (like yours truly) should also be more cautious about promoting these ideas. People need to understand the uncertainty in any scientific conclusion. Brian added: “With everything in science, humility is good.”
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
As one worker rather daringly complained to the official newspaper Pravda: “What are we to do at home if the wife is in the factory, the children in school, and no one can come to see us? What is left but to go to the public tea room? What kind of life is that, when holidays come in shifts, and not for all workers together? That’s no holiday, if you have to celebrate it by yourself.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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