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When productivity culture makes rest feel like failure

I feel guilty every time I am not optimizing something and cannot remember when rest stopped feeling productive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cult of optimization turns natural rhythms into moral failures.

Ideas that help explain it
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