Hereby nominated for Best Title of the Year. It’s a good essay, too.

From Weekly Filet #301, in May 2020.

I tried to write an essay about productivity in quarantine. It took me a month to do it.

I tried to write an essay about productivity in quarantine. It took me a month to do it.

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