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033 Do More, But Scale Down - by Zach Campbell

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Year in review, year ahead

A familiar theme resonates with the end of 2022, as it has with the end of many recent years: not enough time or freedom! I don’t think I will express better the banality of this frustration than Elisa Gabbert recently did: “I hesitate to say that it’s been a hard year for the third year in a row; surely after three years, that’s just how your life is?” Damned if I didn’t wish I could devote more of myself to modest things like seeing friends, traveling and exploring, writing at length in a comfortable setting, watching films projected on film, and—I could keep going, but I won’t. My…

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