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Death to Productivity with Oliver Burkeman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Quest for the Single App to Do Everything in Your Life

"I'm always going to be tinkering with my system. It's not going to approach a kind of perfect final form," he says. "As long as it doesn't completely obliterate my actual productive output then fine, you know." The quest to tame this stuff is ultimately self-defeating and maybe we should just recognize this and stop trying to solve it technologically,. He adds: "My way of finding peace with an interest in productivity stuff has not been to walk away from ever having anything to do with that stuff"

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