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Walking Home for Lunch, Daytime TV, and a Million Dollar Paper Clip

Walking Home for Lunch, Daytime TV, and a Million Dollar Paper Clip

Internet People: Issue 089

Internet People
July 03, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Welcome to Internet People: A weekly email about slow productivity, digital well-being, and living a more creative work life — written by and for Internet People :)

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Happy short week! ⭐️ We’ll be off on Thursday and Friday for the US holiday, so come cowork with us today before we collectively do a factory reset on our brains! The link is right down there 👇

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💭 One Thing We’re Thinking About

How environments affect how we focus 👀

The role of environments often gets overlooked when it comes to doing good work. If you work in an open office environment, it might be great for collaboration and chit-chat, but deep focused work? Good luck.

Even down to the aesthetics — if you’re in windowless room or sitting amongst a paper piles and knick-knacks, this can also affect how much you can relax and settle in.

There’s a very good reason why there’s a whole step in our Flow State Formula dedicated creating the best environment for focus — the vibes just matter.

This is the basis of the article that’s got us thinking this week: how to mold your surroundings to support creativity, flexibility, focus, and comfort.

Take a look around your current environment — is it doing for you what you want it to do for you? What changes might you make?

🤩 This issue of Internet People is sponsored by… us hehe

Now that it’s summer and your brain’s trying to take a vacation, now is a good time to plan for priorities only 😎

That’s why we made Priority Planner: an interactive Notion tool to help you get real with yourself about what’s possible this week.

Priority Planner is perfect for you if:

🤓 You want to visualize and plan your days and weeks more realistically

🤪 Rigid schedules haven’t worked for you, and you need a flexible tool to easily shuffle sh*t around when things don’t go according to plan

😅 You’re a perfectionist who tends to overestimate the urgency/importance of things… and your plate is always overflowing

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👀 One Thing We’re Obsessed With

This outline of a day in the life of the luxury designer Brunello Cucinelli 🗓️

While most of us aren’t waking up at 6am in a countryside home to revel in the silence of nature, there are a few really amazing takeaways that actually are accessible to the gen-pop:

Walks, breaks, and slowness are a daily expectation (!!)
Dedicated morning and afternoon work blocks with no meetings or interruptions. We love how the morning one is for creative flow and the afternoon one is shorter and admin-focused.
Community and intellectual growth are also built in — refilling the ol’ cup and we’re here for it

🎧 One Thing We’re Listening To

If you ever zoned out watching TV during a sick day in elementary school, you’re gonna like this 3-part podcast series from Shameless: Daytime TV that Raised Us

📺 Jerry Springer

⚖️ Judge Judy

🤡 Dr. Phil