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Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit

HBS Managing the Future of Work

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The Four-Day Workweek Movement

There's trade-offs here. It certainly suggests that we might get innovations in things like residential real estate, where rather than it being based fully on location, it might be here are the type of people with these types of interests who this is designed for. But then the disruption to commercial real estate, that's where it gets interesting though. All right, that's a lot of capital that could be reinvested into other things that maybe will better support human flourishing than more Class A office skyscrapers. Well, it certainly gets you into all sorts of intermediate term questions for policymakers about how quickly do you allow people to repurpose buildings.

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