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Most workdays start with the right intentions. You begin the day energized, with an ambitious list of tasks and a manageable inbox. But things quickly unravel as meetings, email, and colleagues’ fire drills take over. Before you know it, your deliberate organization comes crashing down like an…

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Joshua Bright for The New York Times From my window in Brooklyn Heights, I’ve watched the Staten Island ferry come and go for more than two years now, a big orange boat crisscrossing the water. That’s when I’m home, which is not much. At night, I hear the foghorn, a reassuring sound, fading slowly…

Imagine that work had taken over the world. It would be the center around which the rest of life turned. Then all else would come to be subservient to work. Then slowly, almost imperceptibly, anything else—the games once played, the songs hitherto sung, the loves fulfilled, the festivals…

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In 2015, when Lazarus Liu moved home to China after studying logistics in the United Kingdom for three years, he quickly noticed that something had changed: Everyone paid for everything with their phones. At McDonald’s, the convenience store, even at mom-and-pop restaurants, his friends in Shanghai…

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J ustin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook . But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of…

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