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I tried to read Getting Things Done. It’s a slog, but it does have one thing worth remembering; 
Productivity is about being more deliberate about what you do, not about doing more; 
Whenever we see a piece of productivity advice, we should ask – “Productivity to what kinds of political ends?” 
I’m writing a story. Maybe I’ll publish it one day… 
 
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Something’s gone wrong with time – I don’t want to say ‘late stage capitalism strikes again,’ but pre-industrial societies in Europe had something good going. 
Is the agony of procrastination a trace of how we would prefer to go about our tasks? 
The rules of the pomodoro technique – a clever coincidence 
 
 IT’S  ̶p̶i̶z̶z̶a̶ POMODORO TIME! 			 
	
	
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A deep and scoring polemic about the Mindfulness movement. 
Sitting about thinking of the present moment? Maybe it’s helpful for coping, but it’s not the revolution you’re looking for. 
 
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Four thousand years can give you such a crick in the neck… 
This is self-help in a trenchcoat; it’s also a serious commentary on our increasing instrumentation of time 
 
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My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation. 
Good intentions  – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well. 
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I turned twenty-three this week, so here’s a collection of topics that have nothing to do with that: 
Frustrations over that bloody video, again; 
Books on my radar; 
Working on the blog on-the-go with a new cloud solution (that’s not actually in the cloud) 
 
 happy birthday 			 
	
	
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