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Personal Economy

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Time and attention are all we have. When do you give attention to your own thoughts, and when do you ask others to do the same?

When we publish on the weekend—or only allow ourselves to imagine more on personal days—we make a loud statement about what work is, and where personal development fits into our economy of time and attention.

Driving change from the tips of our fingers into a new reality requires active noticing (in the back of the house), the rigor to disambiguate it, and economic articulation (in the front of the house).

Unless delicately sensed and vigorously protected, these collapse under the weight of sameness.

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