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Rabbit holes are only a problem if you desperately have to get something finished and get stuck doing other things that seem more interesting. Otherwise, you can learn interesting things that widen your world view. Or maybe even find something that is a better use of your time than what you were doing in the first place. There is more to life than being productive.


Sometimes a tunnel vision on productivity alone, can become a case of premature optimization.

I'm a lot productive today because of the many things I got introduced when falling through many 'rabit holes'.

But there happens to a be balance that needs to be stuck. And in many peoples cases rabit holes keep expanding to bottom less pits.




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