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Expand Up @@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ made. Kenya is paradise.

But something is wrong with this picture.

Time and again it strikes me that, busy as we are, the world around us moves at
a very different pace.
Time and again it strikes me that, busy as we are - running around, packing
buses, climbing stairs, cramming meetings - the world around us moves at a very
different pace.

We drive down red, rocky roads, lined with people just... waiting. No-one
rushes. Staff at our hotel work dawn to dust and beyond — longer than we do. Our
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["bullshit jobs"](https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom),
I don't think this is what he meant.

There seems to be a lot of spare time here. I wonder about that. OpenFn is
obsessed with a certain kind of efficiency, and yet something about this kind of
living does not seem iniefficient, or wasteful.
There seems to be a lot of spare time here. I wonder about that. We at OpenFn
are obsessed with efficiency - a certain kind of efficiency, anyway. But this
lifestyle doesn't seem to be _inefficient_. Nor is it wasteful.

If I ever work out what it means, I'll let you know.
If I ever work out what any of this means, I'll let you know.

Maybe this is the real reason we're here. We spend our lives fighting
inequality, in our own small, specialised way, reducing inefficiency in parts of
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