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  Don’t think to write, write to think - Herbert Lui

  herbertlui.net - Written by Herbert Lui

  This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual …

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  Hugging the X-Axis

  perell.com

  I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience it all? Change it up. Visit every country. Try a …

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  Life Is Not Short | DKB Show

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  The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely …

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  Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

  The Atlantic - Jonathan Haidt

  It’s not just a phase. What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make a name” for themselves. God was …

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  The Psychological Benefits of Commuting to Work

  The Atlantic - Jerry Useem

  Many people who have been working from home are experiencing a void they can’t quite name. This article was published online on June 9, 2021 and updated at 3:09 p.m. ET on July 29, 2021. Back when commuting was a requirement for going to work, I once passed through a subway tunnel so filthy and …

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  What Deadlines Do to Lifetimes

  The New Yorker - Rachel Syme

  Can we find a balance between structuring our time and squandering it? I used to keep a Post-it note hanging over my workspace with the name Esther Murphy written on it in black Sharpie. I jotted down this warning-to-self sometime around 2012, when I was inhaling Lisa Cohen’s exuberant triple …