Mon. 05/02 - Waste More Time

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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? Sponsors: Novo, Sign up for a free business checking account and get access to over $5,000 in perks and discounts at novo.co/kottke Outer, Get $300 off and free shipping at liveouter.com/kottke 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	It's Monday, May 2nd, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. Why it's time for you to waste time.
0:44.4	Plus, a cafe in Tokyo that doesn't let people leave until they've successfully hit their writing goals.
0:51.9	And a possibly sustainable use for the ungodly amounts of disposable
0:57.3	face masks that we've thrown out in the last two years. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:06.2	Some people work best in the total silence of a library or their own home.
1:11.8	Others need the drone of background noise from a public place,
1:15.7	and yet others need a stranger constantly hovering over them,
1:19.2	forcing them to stay in that public place until they finish their work.
1:23.7	Wait, what?
1:24.9	That is one option available at the Manuscript Writing Cafe in Tokyo, a place designed for writers to achieve their writing goals or else they can't leave.
1:36.8	The cafe reserves one section for writers who can pay by the hour for unlimited self-served coffee and tea as well as Wi-Fi and device charging ports.
1:46.2	When they arrive, they sign in with their name and writing goal for the day, as well as a time
1:51.7	they'd ideally like to finish by. Then they pick a level. Mild just means someone will ask if
1:58.2	they've completed their goal before they pay and depart the cafe.
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