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In defence of being bored

We have eliminated the last unfilled minute of the day and called it progress. Nearly everything worth thinking was thought in one of those minutes.

The desk · 19 August 2026

This one is on the schedule but not yet filed. The desk lists a piece from the moment it is commissioned, so the archive shows what is coming rather than only what is finished.

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