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Work 2.0: Life, Interrupted

Hidden Brain

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Is It Really Helpful to Humanity or the Person?

There's a debate going on, sort of in this field, as should we really be doing these things? Is it really helpful to humanity or the person? And my feeling is that we've always made technological advances at the aim of making things easier for humans. You can choose to use these tools to make you more efficient and then go on a hike or a walk, or you can choose toUse these tools tomake you more efficient but then do more work. That is a personal choice that i think everyone has to make. We were just talking with cal newport - professor of computer science at georgetown university. He looks at deep work, the idea that we are doing too many

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