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productivity

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FUNNY WOMEN: Haruki Murakami’s Productivity Hacks

  • Leslie Ylinen
  • June 24, 2021
Morning exercise can also ignite that creative spark. Try to outrun an oedipal prophecy
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Beauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering

  • Erin Winseman
  • March 17, 2021
As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
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Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell

  • Beth Ward
  • February 14, 2020
Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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Robot Office: Paper Clip

  • Alli Katz
  • November 15, 2017
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • December 27, 2016
Your new chatbot therapist recommends volunteering. Womp womp: those productivity hacks are making you less productive. A quick-and-dirty primer to the “Anthropocene.”
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The Company Tub

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • October 19, 2016
If you have ever enjoyed playing an early Nintendo arcade game, chances are you’ve enjoyed the brain fruit Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto grew while soaking in the company bathtub,…
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood

  • Janet Frishberg
  • May 19, 2016
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
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When the Gospel of Lean Gets Mean

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 3, 2014
All of this American productivity, but cui bono? The answer is actually a little harder to get to than it seems. The Virginia Quarterly Review reports:  One might be forgiven…
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