Tag: oliver burkeman
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Oliver Burkeman on allowing it to be easy
The point (…) isn’t to imagine a parallel universe in which things were easy, but to raise the possibility that they might in fact be easy, here and now. (…) the irony of what’s going on here is that this Read More
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Oliver Burkeman on productivity debt
Many people (by which I meant me) seem to feel as if they start off each morning in a kind of “productivity debt”, which they must struggle to pay off through the day, in hopes of reaching a zero balance Read More
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Oliver Burkeman on relentless effort and missing desire
Maybe you don’t know how to do the work in question, and you’re hoping relentless effort might serve as a substitute for that knowledge. Maybe you don’t really want to do it at all, but just think you ought to Read More