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Productivity

The biggest lie about productivity

When I get on an airplane, I usually follow the same ritual.

I take my seat and open up my laptop to do some work. When it’s time for takeoff, I begrudgingly put the laptop away. I twiddle my thumbs until the plane reaches 10,000 feet and that comforting chime tells me that I can pull out my laptop and go back to being productive.

How to find the unexpected

After his father died, the physicist Richard Feynman went into a deep depression.

He found himself unable to work on research problems. So he told himself that he’d instead play with physics—not for immediate practical results, but for its own sake.

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