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The Sunday Best: Finding Your Default Setting

08.29.21

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Abra Belke
Aug 29, 2021
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When a piece of technology breaks, the option of last resort to save the device is to restore it to its default setting. Just delete the history, wipe the memory, and go back to the beginning.

Several years ago, I began asking my friends: What is your default setting?

It means, what is the moment, the place, the action, the people, that takes you bac…

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