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Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Importance of Taking the Pressure Off

I'm always like oh my god I could do something fun and then I sort of stress over stress out over what should I do. It's delightful to not put so much pressure on that decision and to just say yeah let's do that whatever it'll be fine. There are so many illusions there to spell in your book one that I love to talk about a little bit is you have this idea that we're going to live great lives, but 10,000 years from now no one will remember Steve Jobs except maybe by the layer of heavy metal silicon that is like in the earth's crust somewhere. They'll be likeoh it seems like somebody invented something around this time that there was a

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