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Short Read: Breaking Free From Productivity Addiction

Alex Olshonsky | 4 minutes

Louis Pereira
Sep 14, 2023
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Western culture is run by a sense of false urgency. Work demands that we tend to our email, Slack, and calendars. Increasingly, our social lives are shifting from IRL hangouts to the online space, where we must battle against sophisticated algorithms designed to brainwash us into believing the urgency blasted in their notifications is real. Text messaging and WhatsApp culture convinces us that if we don’t respond to our homies in a timely manner, we are being inconsiderate, selfish friends.
Our bodies carry all these burdens more than we realize.

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2 years ago · 42 likes · 20 comments · Alex Olshonsky

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Don't punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve.

- Ideopunk, 100 tips for a better life

You have a plan.
A time-traveller from 2030 appears and tells you your plan failed.

Which part of your plan do you think is the one that fails?

Fix that part.

- Ideopunk, 100 tips for a better life

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Murray Lindsay
Sep 14

I'd advise anyone impatient with me replying to a text to get their head out of their arse and try (TRY) to visualize that the other person just might have something else going on at that moment. A bigger stretch of their brains would be to try and imagine that not everyone is a slack-jawed thumb zombie staring at their phone.

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