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Ep. 255: The Failure of Cybernetic Productivity
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Reduce Friction in Your Work
There's a firewall between what I'm working on now and the things I'm actually working on. Psychologically it's going to make a difference because it will get rid of the infinite buffer effect All right, the second solution here Reintroduce some friction sometimes this is what you have to do if you can't get around the infinite buffers They say actually I don't want all of this overhead and shallow work to be faster. I want it to be enough of a pain that slows down how many products can be going on at the same time Maybe you use on purpose old tools or maybe you're not trying to get the very latest information organizational tools You print things and put them in files and
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