Oliver Burkeman (Replay): Productivity Is A Trap
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We Can't Make Chaos Disappear
I think both these points about accepting chaos and only working for a few hours on deep creative work they're like they're both points I've made but you're connecting them in a way that I hadn't quite done before. It's so strange to me that if you make a schedule for the day or you have a sense of how your rhythms should go for the day for many of us anyway disruptions to that are like really unsettling even if it doesn't lead to any less work or to a less meaningful day. Just by sort of scaling back your ambitions in in terms of time there is much more likely that you're going to get your way. If you keep the thing you care about in
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