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I did not expect a productivity book to slow me down. I picked up The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss , thinking it would help me optimize my time. Instead, Chapter 5 did something more uncomfortable. It forced me to confront how much of my “work” was actually rooted in fear and avoidance. The chapter focuses on Parkinson’s Law, the 80/20 principle, and asks a question at the end, which forced me to sit and re-think my approach to Defining Sonder. If you had a heart attack and could only...

I’ve been pretty quiet on here lately. My initial spark of creativity and inspiration seemed to have waned under the pressure I started to put on this project. I’m currently reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (great recommendation from the Telepathy Tapes ), and Elizabeth talks about how inspiration needs space to breathe. When we demand perfection or financial success from it, we put it under strain that it does not respond well to. I could feel my own creativity and inspiration receding...

Tomorrow, a lot of us will sit down at tables with the people we love… and quietly brace ourselves for what might come out of their mouths. We’re bracing, not because we don’t care about them, but because we know how quickly a conversation can turn from “can you pass the stuffing?” to “how the hell can you possibly belive that?” There have been plenty of holidays where I’ve walked away from the table feeling more alone than when I arrived, and more convinced that the distance between me and...