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Mara Finch
Reports on focus, distraction and the shape of a working day.
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The twenty minute threshold
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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Shallow work has a smell
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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On being interruptible
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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