productivity

This post is coming to you from 30,000 feet, flying somewhere over Oklahoma on my way home. I mention this context because I haven’t been home in two weeks, and I’m so eager to see my friends and make the most of my time. I had forgotten just how stressful it is on me and my relationships when I’m away from home most of the week, and that was exacerbated when I didn’t go home last weekend at all. (Not that I would trade my weekend in Sonoma for anything!) This morning, I read a really interesting article about how Having Too Many Friends …

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This week, I read an article by Eric Barker on shortcuts to bonding deeply with a romantic partner. So as I do with a lot of interesting things I read, I sent it on to Adam. And then we both had fun realizing that we do a lot of these things already. But one of the things on the list that we both thought was a great idea was the idea of pretending that we’re on a first date again. No, not in the weird roleplaying way that Claire and Phil do on Modern Family (honestly, whenever they pretend to …

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