Why Doing Nothing Might Be the Most Human Thing You Can Do (PM Talks S3E4)
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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Uh, we were just having some machine issues as we started this.
I've had machine issues this week. Uh, technical issues are always fun. And i it actually is akin to talking about the subject that I wanted to get into today, which is humanness, because often humans are treated like machines when we clearly are not, although we do need to be rebooted every once in a while. What's that Anne is it Anne Lamont that has that quote, like, if you find you're not working every once in a while, you know yeah turn off and restart you yeah yeah turn yourself back on or something like yeah do you feel like you do you feel like you need that right now yourself yes yes desperately and and you know uh so we're going on on vacation on spring break vacation here uh it was well in a couple of days
uh leaving very early on Monday morning. And uh yeah, it it is that old axiom, right? Of like just when like you're gonna be away for like 10 days and knowing that like you'll be forced to shut off because in our case we'll be on the other side of the planet, you know, basically we'll be you know, um, you know, our are obviously if anyone wants to call, uh, they're not they're gonna get nowhere, uh, you know, all of that stuff. Um and uh, you know, we've kind of but, you know, it is that thing where like you let people know, hey, I'm not gonna be available for a couple of weeks.
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