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Thursday 24 November 2016 12:04 pm  |  Updated:  Monday 03 June 2019 6:17 am

City PM Unregulated podcast: The art of professional idling, with Tom Hodgkinson

By: Emma Haslett

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Entrepreneur and professional idler Tom Hodgkinson talks about how he turned The Idler into more than just a magazine, and explains why laziness is an important part of creativity.

Also the author of Business for Bohemians, Hodgkinson explains why our obsession with productivity is getting us down – and why he is passionate about spreadsheets.

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