
Cal Newport (Author of Deep Work)
Mere Christians
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What's a Contect Shift?
If you have to keep changing your tention from an in box or a slack channel and then back to what you're doing, every time you do that change, you pay a cognitive cost. You can't think clearly, you get mentally exhausted and creates anxiety. Every one thinks about email overload from the perspective of, oh, i need better habits for how i deal with my in box. No, now, you need the stop stuff from coining that en box in the first place. Yo. Don't need batching rules, or etiquette or norm or here is my, you know, i turn ff my notifications. It's getting that in box to be less overstuffed.
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