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Focus

Attention, routine, and the quiet hours that serious work seems to need.

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Twelve minutes before the desk

A small, dull ritual does more for a working morning than any amount of willpower applied at the last moment.

Tomas Reid4 min read
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On working in daylight

I moved the hardest hours of my week into the brightest part of the day, and almost everything else rearranged itself around that.

Tomas Reid6 min read

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