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Saving Time Is For Suckers with Jenny Odell

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Meaningless Bit That Makes Life Worth Living

"I try to write down like if I saw something beautiful or surprising or shocking," she says. "That's because that is the stuff that makes life worth living." She writes about this in her book, which includes all of her journal entries from when she was a child. The thing you want to read in the future is the thing that you thought was funny, and not how much time you've got for it.

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