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How do you leverage your limitations? (with Oliver Burkeman)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Negative Effects of Notifications on Social Life

I think it's providing me with part of my social life especially in a sort of lockdown context right when I'm my work is fundamentally sitting at a desk on my own. There's something really pleasurable about having this sort of cocktail party accessible at the click of a button but unfortunately there's all sorts of bad that is very bad as well. It makes it very difficult for me to turn away even when I can and you get into this thing where like you're not just using up an hour or use up half an hour it's that it sort of distorts the way you think about everything. You know if I see someone just making some really annoyingly wrong argument and I feel like

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