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31 Jul9 min Against the productivity of attentionWe started measuring focus the way factories measured output, and then were surprised when the work got worse in exactly the ways output measures cannot see.
17 Jul12 min Notes on quitting wellLeaving is treated as the failure state of a decision, which is strange, because it is usually the part that took the most nerve.
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