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Read more about the article Slow Productivity and Elevating Love
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Slow Productivity and Elevating Love

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:January 7, 2022
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In 2022, I’m trying to practice slowing down, so I was intrigued by Cal Newport’s idea of “slow productivity” in a recent essay in the New Yorker. And yet Newport…

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Read more about the article Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay

Meritocracy Is the Antithesis to Love | Plough Essay

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 2, 2021
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Meritocracy is the antithesis to love.  I first wrote those words almost two years ago, when we were traveling cross-country and we were taking regular hikes as a family. On…

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