The stress of a deadline isn't about the task. It's the feeling of time you already borrowed against and now have to repay.

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The Long Game Naming TIME

The stress of a deadline isn't about the task. It's the feeling of time you already borrowed against and now have to repay.

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The thought behind it

It names a feeling you have carried for years without vocabulary. Naming does not dissolve it, but it makes it addressable. Filed under TIME as well, because the balance actually being discussed is not currency but the hours behind it. “borrowed” is doing the work: it is where the line stops describing you and starts asking something.

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