While I wait that out, I'm just getting the job done. Chop wood, carry water. I've got a book to write, *Enshittification*, for Farar, Straus, Giroux's MCD Books, and it's very nearly done:
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Compartmentalizing my anxieties and plowing that energy into productive work isn't *necessarily* the healthiest coping strategy, but it's not the worst, either. It's how I wrote nine books during the covid lockdowns.
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