start again today no. 12: the wages of productivity đź’¸, slow down, i have a dream, me moments

In this week’s start again today newsletter, I share Anne Helen’s writeup on how burnout is accelerated by the perceived path to the aspirational class in the knowledge economy, we throw it back to 1963 with MLK Jr., visit an elementary school in Nashville that has institutionalized “me moments” and explore the upside of doing hard things.

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start again today no. 9: life lessons, neuralink, comparing and saying thank you

In this week’s newsletter, I share Maria Popova’s reflections on 13 years of Brain Pickings, Wait But Why’s basically-a-book on the evolution of the human brain and the future with brain machine interfaces and neuralink, Derek Sivers thoughts on comparing up vs comparing down and, importantly, how to write a thank you note.

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