We oftentimes think about Henry David Thoreau as this lotus eating tree hugging, loafer of a guy who took two years to go hang out at Walden and escape all the pressures of modern life. But really, what I think it is, is that he went to the woods to work deliberately. If we read Thoreau and read Walden as basically sort of handbook for how you might think about your own working life,. And I think that that is very directive.

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