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Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Is There a Cultural Critique of Overwork?
The advent of low friction technology didn't actually make the things we do as knowledge workers more efficient, right? So this was not like here is a better factory tool, which means you can attach this steering wheel faster. I think the introduction alot of these tools brought down our productivity in the sense that the constant context shifting required to exist in a work place made us less able to get things done. The mobile revolution allowed us to compensate for that dropping productivity with doing more work in more hours. And it evened out, and we kind of stayed the same....
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