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Small shifts to help you live bigger

Prepare for your low-energy self

I could never understand why my grandparents set the table for breakfast before going to bed, or prepared dinner at lunchtime. But now I think about it, they had a point.

If staring blankly into the depths of the fridge has never made your dinner come quicker, it’s time to prepare for your low-energy self.

In a high-energy state, make decisions for low-energy you:

• Prepare tomorrow’s breakfast

• Write the project plan

• Pack your bag and put out your clothes

These small saves add up, leaving us less exhausted.

Plus, it’s the answer to that nagging question:

Q: “why can’t I just do this tomorrow?”

A: “I’m doing future me a favour.”

Hear

Serendipitous life advice

Jeff Matlow encourages us to think about what we’ve traded to get to where we are today

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Fresh perspectives on life and work

The Productivity Paradox

Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, shares a short perspective on computers and how they weren’t the productivity hack we hoped they would be. At least for a while.

It’s an interesting take: if the productivity argument has oversold and underdelivered in the past, when it comes to tech innovations, what’s to stop it happening again?

Savour

A little something to feed one of the 5 senses. This week: taste.

🫐 Gen Z now have their very own blueberry varietal. The “pink cosmo” blueberry

4x the price of the already not-so-humble blueberry, this is a stroke of branding genius.