Bianca Monaco
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Bianca Monaco
Only dead fish go with the flow.
-David Ogilvy
figure out who you are, and do it on purpose
at the end of a gpt that was made. interesting.
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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