Cory DoctorowDec 4, 2022

This profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do

Show threadShelby Kinney-Lang

@pluralistic I love this, and also so much of your work.

But I'm also wary of life-hacking and the (late-capitalist) traps of productivity. You can do it (everything), yay! Some people really can just spit out thousands of words and have a blog and be an activist and have a kid!

Not everyone can, though. Or not methodically. I get lost on my way to my own kitchen.

See e.g. Anna Hogeland's essay on the rewards of procrastination: https://lithub.com/anna-hogeland-on-the-rewards-of-procrastination/

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Anna Hogeland on the Rewards of Procrastination

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. This summer, I didn’t want to write. When I happened to have childcare and all pressing domestic matters were…

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