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A Ritual for Switching Gears

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By David Sparks
| MacSparky
Lately, I’ve had an influx of admin work as I’m shifting platforms. And I noticed over the last few days that all my unrelated work has felt harder, as my brain keeps shifting back to the admin tasks I suddenly find on my plate. Put simply, my mode shifting has been broken. I can’t seem to leave the last thing when I go to the next thing. I realized that because I’ve been doing too much, I’ve not been using my handoff ritual. We talk a lot about how hard it is to start the next thing.
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This Week in the Labs — July 3, 2026

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By David Sparks
| MacSparky
This was a transition week around here. A lot of you are moving into the new Circle home for MacSparky Labs, and it has been fun watching the place fill up. If you are a Labs member and you haven’t made the jump yet, send me a note and I’ll get you an invite link. Below you’ll find the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, and what’s coming next week.
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On Pain and Happiness

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By David Sparks
| MacSparky
A listener recently wrote in about something that stopped him mid-page. He’d picked up Gregory Hays’s translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, while working through a hard stretch in his life, looking to Stoicism for a foothold. Then he hit a line in Hays’s introduction: “Marcus does not offer us a means of achieving happiness, but only a means of resisting pain.” He asked whether that’s really all Stoicism has to offer, and what else he should read. Here’s what I told him.
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