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Recovering your genius

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Wake up, check Instagram, then email, coffee, headphones in, what’s the news?, Twitter, head to work, Slack, meeting, coffee, Zoom, lunch at your desk, coffee number three, Slack, gym, Instagram, finish that podcast, check your email, check it again, dinner, Netflix, Instagram while watching Netflix, a little dessert, read a few pages of your book, email in bed to make sure there are no last minute emergencies, lay awake and briefly allow yourself to feel the crushing gravity of your eventual death, go to sleep. Most of our days are a series of short, choppy beats like this. A succession of events, one after the next. There’s no momentum building in the distance. There’s no bigger goal that we’re heading towards. Which makes those final seconds of the day—the ones where we actually contemplate our purpose on planet earth—so utterly crushing. Instead of being awash with purpose, it feels as if we’re cramming each minute of each day, with another activity, another distraction. And this h

Recovering your genius 0 0 startup social Posts Recovering your genius Recovering your genius How presence shapes history and innovation Zac Solomon October 22, 2023 Let me know if this sounds right: Wake up, check Instagram, then email, coffee, headphones in, what’s the news?, Twitter, head to work, Slack, meeting, coffee, Zoom, lunch at your desk, coffee number three, Slack, gym, Instagram, finish that podcast, check your email, check it again, dinner, Netflix, Instagram while watching Netflix, a little dessert, read a few pages of your book, email in bed to make sure there are no last minut

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