This Is Not A Productivity Article

E. B.
4 min readNov 13, 2020

I’m not sure when the exhaustion started. It began settling in as the days kept rolling, nesting in between my bones and capturing the muscles in my legs. At first it was a distant hum I chose to ignore, as I dragged myself from my desk to a dance class to a meeting to the kitchen to cook.

I put in the hours. I had dutifully cultivated a routine over the past months that helped me ensure I’d get things…

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E. B.

Translator, writer, dancer. I resist becoming a brand. I have moved away from Medium to Substack. https://elsafigueroa.substack.com/