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Ines Okafor
Reader in residence. What is on the pile, and what came off it.
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What I learned re-reading my own margins
Attention is not a quantity you have, it is a shape you make. Two uninterrupted hours and four interrupted half-hours are not the same material, and no amount of arithmetic will tu
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Reading slowly on purpose
Attention is not a quantity you have, it is a shape you make. Two uninterrupted hours and four interrupted half-hours are not the same material, and no amount of arithmetic will tu
Books
Why I stopped finishing books I dislike
The trick, if there is one, is not to be more disciplined. It is to make the first twenty minutes cheap enough that you are willing to spend them badly. A page you are allowed to r
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Keeping a commonplace book
There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up
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