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You're Not Busy. You're Hiding.

Fake progress feels better than real progress. That's why you keep choosing it.

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Scott D. Clary
Nov 03, 2025
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You have the thing to do. The important thing. The thing that would actually move something forward.

But first, you’re going to clean your inbox.

Not because your inbox needs cleaning. Because cleaning your inbox feels productive. You can see progress. Delete, delete, archive, respond. Numbers going down. Dopamine going up.

Twenty minutes later, inbox at zero. You feel good. You feel like you did something.

Except you didn’t do the thing.

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