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06May09

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Managing time and finishing things when you can’t focus

05May09

I’ve read a few recent articles on attention and concentration, timed to the release of Winifred Gallagher’s new book, Rapt. The NY Times piece in particular, I feel, does a good job of exploring the difference betwen the urgent (checking your email) and the important (finishing that book). In short, it’s tricky because our brains [...]

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Tags: attention, concentration, focus, time, time management

Has the internet and technology killed expat life?

05May09

Part of the lag between my recent posts has been my recent move back to the U.S. after a year and a half in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wanted to be a flaneur in a cheap, hip city that would let me enact my Gertrude Stein dreams while was still young, childless, and relatively untethered [...]

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Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Prague, telecommuting