Every Once In A While
Reason #1: Downtime Aids Insights
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The key observation here is that even a modest schedule of weekday escapes can be sufficient to diminish the exhaustion of an otherwise metronome-regular routine.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
an opportunity for breaks: to pause and reflect, reconfigure.
Robin Sloan • Advice for newsletter-ers
the reality is that most of us just don’t have the flexibility in our lives to be able to walk away from our work for a full year. Thankfully, we can all take practical sabbaticals—daily, weekly, or monthly breaks where we walk away from our work completely. Writer Gina Trapani has pointed out three prime spots to turn off our brains and take a bre
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Pause: Taking a Break