A case for designing your life rather than optimising for it
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The slow life and ambition are not opposites. You've just been sold that they are.
Here’s what some people get wrong when they look at my life from the outside. It looks like I’m optimising; I have an Oura Ring, an Eight Sleep mattress, I track my cycle, I train five times a week. On paper, I am a wellness girlie cliché. But that observation points to a conflation on a hill that I will die over: the idea that optimising your life and designing your life are the same thing. They’re not siblings. They’re barely distant cousins who get on at Christmas. The nuance is crucial and often missed in debates. Let me be clear: one of these ideologies I subscribe to wholeheartedly,…
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