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Ep. 239: On Time and Stress

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Productivity Bros

Time block planning is our only defense against these overwhelming onslaught of tasks. I think the reason we have too much to do is to some degree maybe about exploitative relationships with capital, but a lot of it has to do with culture and technology shifted. We did not shift along with it any sort of meaningful culturally accepted norms or boundaries for controlling workload. When knowledge work collided with email digital networks, computer based productivity tools that meant that the individual worker now became a jack of all trades.

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