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Subtraction Adds Meaningfulness

On the never-ending dance of adding and subtracting things

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Per Håkansson
Oct 01, 2022
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What are the things, people, and thoughts you could subtract to simplify life and work? Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash.

Imagine two towers made out of Jenga blocks. One tower is a bit higher than the other and you’re asked to make them the same height. What do you do? Well, 95 percent of people choose to make the lower tower higher by adding blocks while…

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