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Ep. 93: Am I Overcommitted or Bad at Time Management?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Mackay's Knowledge Work - The Emerging Class of Knowledge Workers

There's a real focus in this book on industrial r and d. Mackay is influenced by observing these research and development labs like you would see at dupont or something like this. His contemporary, peter drucker, had just introduced the term knowledge work earlier in that decade. So there was something about industrial research and development, which it's a very autonomous, sort of driven, skilled, creative knowledge work.

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