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Ep. 255: The Failure of Cybernetic Productivity

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The ABCs of Something Productivity

I like to think of myself as the Bryce Harper of coming up with systems in the sense that you know Bryce Harper was a precociously young hitter. I spent my entire childhood doing something that turned out to be Multiple orders of magnitude less lucrative which is coming up with ideas. And there's no 330 million dollar contract for idea writing but anyway, so been best practice If you do more of it, you get better, but it's sort of a parlor trick and It's good to recognize this type of writing when you see it.

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