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Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Ensure Your Research Process Is Efficient
How do you avoid over researching? Research is seductive and I for one often find myself sucked helplessly into research rabbit holes. Some of the most lauded nonfiction writers use what are probably very slow habits in terms of manually looking through papers and archives, taking notes by hand. They don't really focus on I want to really quickly process this information necessarily,. Because again, that's not the bottleneck for producing the good writing. The hard part is synthesizing the information and actually doing the work of doing the worker rights.
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