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I'm Jocelyn Keglai, and this is Hurry Slowly. I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about pacing yourself, where I explore how you can avoid burnout, improve your productivity, and activate your creative mind all

through the simple act of slowing down.

Today is the first installment in a new,

mini-episode format that I'm introducing.

These will be shorter 5-10-minute episodes

that provide a lighter counterpoint

to the in-depth interviews that I normally do.

Moving forward, every third episode of Harish Loli

will be in this shorter format.

And this first one is going to be a little meditation

from yours truly. Because as we head into the holiday break, it feels like the perfect moment to

pause and take stock of what we've learned over the course of the first 10 episodes of Hurry

Slowly. For me, there's one single idea, or rather one single object, that has loomed large over so many of these conversations about regaining control of our time and our attention.

And that's the smartphone.

With Craig Maud, I talked about how smartphones are almost like tiny time machines that allow us to rewind to the moments that we loved and fast forward into the

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