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Chuang Tzu on usefulness of uselessness

Chuang Tzu observed that the most useful things often appear useless—gnarled trees survive because they're too twisted to cut down, empty spaces in a room make it livable. In practice, this means protecting time that produces nothing, protects everything else.

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