Being Someone who Does Things - by Joe Hovde
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I really want to be someone who does things. Broadly, I can spend my time in the following ways: Pure leisure: things where I am entirely sitting back and don’t even appear to be productive. Watching TV, eating at restaurants, looking at Instagram. It’s good to have some pure leisure to relax and I’m fairly good about not spending too much time on this. But when I spend too much time on leisure it starts to feel bad. Passive productivity: these things look or feel productive but tend to have diminishing returns. They usually involve consuming information — listening to podcasts, reading,…
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