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Work Cycles

Humans have imagined themselves as machines, doing work linearly, and continuously.

We aren't machines, but organisms that work best cyclically, with intervals and rest periods.

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"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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