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Jen Pollock Michel Reimagines Productivity

The Habit

CHAPTER

Is That the Story of Western Civilization?

There's an example of redeeming time, like using the clock as a way to say, Oh, it's time to slow down. And that I just was I didn't that it was news to me that the mechanical clock was invented for that purpose. Lewis Mumford, I think techniques of civilization is the one he's got this great quote about basically timekeeping became time serving. It's the story of every kind of idolatry. Absolutely.

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