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Just crippling existential dread.
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Ray Mears
British woodsman and TV presenter
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
Victoria Pendleton
British cyclist
Cows in the field next door.
Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
I wrote about this in our first quarter client letter, actually, the concept of polycrisis, and I talked about the fact that my belief is that we've all become firefighters.
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