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Ep. 259: The Four-Hour Work Day

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Importance of Workload Management

It is very difficult to most knowledge work situations to be saying no or turning things down. I think workload management should be explicit, but outside of a few small knowledge work fields like software development, we do not do this. We should have a better way of keeping track of what are you doing and how much you want to do. It's at the core of a lot of sources of unhappiness that I think people have in their jobs these days.

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