Convenience
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the seductive lure of convenience.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
By leading us off the easy path—the one that leads to the garbage can and the mailbox—we can enable new activities.
Henrik Karlsson • On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
The cost of convenience is vitality. You can have a lot of things done for you in the modern world — and many of them are great time savers! — but the feeling of being alive comes from being fully engaged in the right task, not free from all tasks.
Sure, you can automate and delegate all sorts of things, but the more interesting question is, “What... See more
Sure, you can automate and delegate all sorts of things, but the more interesting question is, “What... See more