Time Confetti, Sleepytime Tea Bear, and Life Advice for Tired People

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💭 One Thing We’re Thinking About

The Sleepytime Tea Bear is our ultimate inspo right now.

It’s really hard to slow down any time of the year, but especially at the end when you’ve got EOY reports, holiday parties, and gifts you have to track down that were already marked as delivered.

Despite your loaded to-do list, you still probably have the inclination to take more naps and allow your spare time expand.

You’re not lazy, you’re doing something called Wintering — Now live on the blog!

👀 One Thing We’re Obsessed With

A few weekends ago, we both listened to the insanely long conversation between Stanford Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Penn Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant — some of our favorite Big Brains™

Don’t worry, we listened so you don’t have to. We’ll be dripping out gems from it over the next few weeks, like this term:

Time Confetti: little bits of time lost to unproductive multitasking

For more on this topic, check out this article written by one of the lead researchers on the idea.

(We’ll be stealing this term for the Spacetime Glossary)

🎧 One Thing We’re Listening To

OLOGIES PODCAST:

Life Advice: For Anyone Who is Tired & Needs Some Hacks (48 min)

🤔 One Question for You

⭐️ One Last Thing

Here’s an ambiance video to play on your computer while you finish up work this week, or to loop on your TV this weekend. It’s giving Sleepytime Tea Bear 💤

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