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Ep. 181: Should I Quit My Lawyer Job?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Problem With Back and Forth Messages in the Workplace

In the modern work place, workers have to check in boxes on average once every six minutes. This is required if you have hundreds of messages that re going to have to be seen and responded to relatively quickly. Every one of those checks induces a cognitive context shift. And it's fatiguing our brain so we try to co-activinate more with other people.

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