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96: Time Management for Mortals: Oliver Burkeman

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

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The Endless Productivity Trap

The more stuff you can get done and the more people feel free to ask you to do X, Y, or Z is a sort of endless productivity trap. It reminds me we recently did an interview with Rebecca DeYoung, who's a theologian on the seven deadly sins. And she notes that historically sloth was thought of as inattention to more important matters than other things. So it may be actually our obsessions on productivity might lead us toward unexpectedly sloth.

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