When I was growing up in Istanbul, our electricity supply was highly unreliable. Power would come and go as it pleased and, as a little boy, I’d get terrified whenever we had a blackout.
To distract me, my dad came up with a game.
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Good Will Hunting is one of my all-time favorite movies.
There’s a scene where Will and his friends walk into a Harvard bar (or “Hahvahd bah,” as they would pronounce it). In the bar, Will’s friend Chuckie starts chatting up Skylar, while pretending to be a Harvard student.
Your routine is a trap. Disrupt it.
The jackhammering outside my window has been relentless.
Just when you think it’s over—when that brief moment of silence generates a glimmer of hope that the piercing ratatatata sounds will finally stop—it starts again.
Stop calling your office an office
A few weeks ago, I held a funeral.
It wasn’t for a person. It was for what I used to call my “home office.” But unlike most funerals, no one was mourning this particular death.