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Should rest be productive?

I'm not sure that's the point

Aug 19, 2025
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Hi,

I’m having a slow August. The words are not forthcoming. Ideas half-form and then disintegrate as soon as I try to grasp them. The campaigning energy I had for the first half of this year seems to have evaporated off into the sun. I stare at this laptop and wonder where my brain is.

Rationally, of course, I know there is no pressure to create. I’ve do…

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