Category: Living Deliberately
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The Overachieving Octopus
My morning started simply enough. I finished the crossword I’d fallen asleep working on the night before. I got Wordle in four. I made a cup of coffee and opened the shades to let the sun in. I stood for a moment and noted how its light lined up with the cars on the street.…
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Permission to Play
On losing the joy in work, and giving yourself permission to tinker your way back to it.
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Ground State
A ferry ride from Boston to Provincetown, and a borrowed idea from physics for what it feels like to strip away performance down to your lowest-energy, most essential self.
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Shedding the Canvas
A Wednesday afternoon with Pollock and Duchamp at MoMA, and unlearning the corporate instinct that a day only counts if it produces something.


