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Ep. 194: The Surprising Math of Doing Less
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Productivity Versus Load Curve
If we are careful in thinking about the mathematics of value production, doing less is often the optimal strategy. What i think about is what i sometimes call the productivity versus load curve. As you keep moving towards the right, towards more and more things on your plate, that curve is going to come back down. The two things that really get bad as you get more and more stuff on your plate is the anxiety of overload and the overhead of overload. We do too much for no good reason.
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