Notes on China
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> So what's the point of travel? … For me, it's something like, what becomes salient to you. I started asking questions about China I hadn't even thought to ask about America.
> Another thing I noticed is more personal. Two weeks of being AFK, and of having the excuse of using a burner phone to put off messages, helped me clear the cache of thoughts about … minutiae. …
> It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place.