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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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