Tea and the Value of Doing Nothing

Arthur Van Siclen
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJul 8, 2019

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I compulsively work hard. Too hard. I’d like to get better at doing nothing. And so I built a company that helps me do nothing. I’m its first customer.

That’s me. Drinking tea and doing nothing.

Ironically, I worked hard building this company because — as a customer — it makes me really good at doing nothing. I just sit there, drink tea, and appreciate the thoughts that arise and pass away, looking out the window, and deeply recuperating from…

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