After I published the crisis post, I have received a lot of helpful and warm feedback (I’m hoping to summarize them someday), and also seen several discussions and comments on Twitter. There was a thread that was unexpected to me, because people started to share procrastination techniques (apparently these methods won’t work with Alastair Rushworth).
Someone even pointed out a website Corrupt-a-File.net. I hope this website was just kidding.
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