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Thursday, January 24, 2019

The 'Busy' Trap - The New York Times

I read Deep Work in its entirety, and although there is some good stuff in there, the sources Cal Newport draws on are even more interesting, like this article by Tim Kreider, who is kind of delightful.


The 'Busy' Trap - The New York Times: Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.

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