Mon. 05/02 - Waste More Time
May 02, 2022•20 min
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Episode description
Why it’s time for you to waste time. Plus, a café in Tokyo that doesn’t let people leave until they’ve successfully hit their writing goals. And a possibly sustainable use for the ungodly amounts of disposable masks we’ve thrown out in the last two years?
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Links:
- Coffee, tea and nagging at Japan's anti-procrastination cafe (Reuters)
- How to tackle 'wasted-time worry' – and why it's important (Metro News)
- I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore
- There might finally be a good use for all those disposable masks (Mic)
- Disposable masks could be used to improve concrete (ScienceDaily)
- China banned Spider-Man: No Way Home because of Statue of Liberty scene (Consequence of Film)
- Gay references removed from Fantastic Beasts 3 for Chinese release (The Guardian)
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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