A Week in the Life
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A Week in the Life
Maybe you can’t keep your current job while also seeing enough of your children; maybe making sufficient time in the week for your creative calling means you’ll never have an especially tidy home, or get quite as much exercise as you should, and so on.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
What can I learn from journalism? What if half of my process became structured and deadline focused? I very much appreciated the “work like an artist” workflow I have, and will fight to keep it, but maybe that’s one of two streams.
I can write short relatively fast. I can write a solid 500-word one-take essay in an hour. In 2 hours I can edit, refi
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I begin the week with the bright intention not to be devoured by the administrative deluge which defines business in the modern age. I sip my coffee and pretend that I am waiting for Sartre or Camus to join me at the Café de Flor. I resist the temptation to turn on my computer so I can keep the grim spectacle at bay for at least another twenty minu... See more