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Ep. 161: Should I Follow My Skill or My Passion?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Having Too Much Work on Your Plate?
In knowledge work writ large, a real issue we have is this push model of work. We get too much work on our plate because there's no one regulating this. So when your plate gets full enough, the fixed overhead itself can take over most of your hours. I'm a biga believer in having a much more explicit alocation of work where we think through how much can you do? How much are you doing? Does it make sense to give you something else? That back pressure reforms the system and less of these requests are allowed to be generated.
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