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Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Computer Screws With All That Contextlik

The computer screws with all that contextlik. I don't ko im on the computer, There's 20 things i could be doing here. So it's very hard for your brain to get into minds that of we're doing this one. The whole reason behind personal computers was hey, one device can do lots of different information processing task and its very cost effective. But we just have to be careful about the side effect of that, which is, once one thing can do lots of things, you're never just doing one thing when you're dealing with it. It's something i think it's definitely worth keeping in mind.

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