By Cal Newport — 2021
The struggle to create a digital alternative to the analog office.
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CLEAR ALL
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
As we peer around the corner of the pandemic, let’s talk about what we want to do—and not do—with the rest of our lives.
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Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.
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How Pamela Abalu got out of the cubicle hamster wheel with a single mantra: “Work is love made visible.”