Building a Business Without Slack

1 · Karl L. Hughes · May 11, 2021, midnight
Last year, I read two books that changed my perspective on work. The first was Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi. In it, Zomorodi explains the importance of not filling every moment of time with a quick hit of something to do. Counterintuitively, doing nothing can make you more productive in the long run: “When our minds wander, we activate something called the ‘default mode,’ the mental place where we solve problems and generate our best ideas, and engage in what’s known as ‘autobiograp...