In 2023, I’m Choosing Peace, Not Productivity

And it’s setting me free in so many ways.

Deya Bhattacharya
Practice in Public
Published in
8 min readMar 8

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I’ve been disillusioned with hustle culture for a while.

It’s too fast, too money-oriented and too much of a default expectation to excite me anymore. And my depression/ADHD brain doesn’t do well under that kind of pressure, as I’ve observed over many months and years of experimenting.

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Deya Bhattacharya
Practice in Public

Literary fiction writer building her way to the Pulitzer. ADHD solopreneur. Indian girl in California. I hike mountains, lift weights and eat cake.