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Ep. 139: Am I Good at Time Management or Just Lazy?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
I Should Have Done a Stapler Thesis
In theoretical computer science, like a lot of mathematical fields, writing a dissertation is not necessarily the same thing as if you're in the humanityes. By the time i was writing my dissertation, ihad published many and a lot of people in theoretical computer science will write what's known as a stapler thesis. So it's basically, here's three or four of my best papers. Let me fill in the details and add a big introduction. There's my dissertation. It's not a big deal, right? But we're trying to compare apples to apples here. In my field, writing non fiction books takes more time, more total hours dedicated specifically to that book, than it
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