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Ep. 226: The Productivity Dragon

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Do Fewer Things at a Natural Pace

Steven Johnson: The idea of doing enough, what Steven's referring to is working at a natural pace. He argues for much more seasonality or variability in this pace. In his recent New Yorker article on what hunter-gatherers can teach us about how to handle modern work he talked about the paleolithic origins of exactly this idea that it was highly variable.

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