The Knowledge Management Series: Cal Newport | A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
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The Hidden Dangers of Following Your Passion
I think we are incredibly unproductive because of the hyperactive hype, my incredibly unproductive, right? And I think it shows up in the economy-wide metrics. Non-industrial productivity has stagnated throughout this period that we made communication lower friction and more ubiquitous than ever before in human history. You know, two professors are going to publish what five used to publish before. One lawyer is going to handle what three lawyers were able to produce when they had to check email once every six minutes. We only need as third as many workers to get the same amount of work done if you're not doing email all day. It could open up brand new markets, which I think could be very
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