Modern Knowledge Work Is Skilled

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In our modern work, we are increasingly drowned the application of such talents in a deluge of distraction. Our ancestors for 300,000 years had intensity levels go up and down, up and down. And so if we want to make our work today closer to what it was there, that's a really fraught statement. You could summarize that as we should work less at a natural pace while obsessing more over the quality We produce.

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DEEP DIVE: Did Caveman Use To-Do Lists? [1:28]
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- LIVE CALL: Debating a master’s program [27:59]
- How do I practice the “journalistic” mode of scheduling deep work? [37:32]
- How do I determine when something I’m working on is good enough? [44:20]
- Should I take two months off work to write in a cabin? [49:14]
- Is answering email quickly really a good marker of talent? [53:45]
- Is there a tutorial for Cal’s planning system? [1:00:04]
- When is the new version of the Time Block Planner coming? [1:01:34]

CASE STUDY: A Freelancer Crafts a Deep Life [1:04:18]

CAL REACTS: New Insights on Kids and Phones [1:16:33]

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