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Ep. 227: Visions of the Deep Life?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Alternative to Push, the Alternative to Pull
Most people implicitly rely on what I would call a push system. Anyone can push work onto your plate. This is also true in freelance client work. In a poll based system, you work on a small number of things at a time. When you finish something, you then pull in something new to replace it. Poll based systems are a much better match for the way that the human mind operates than push based systems.
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