
Cal Newport on Information Overload and a World Without Email
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
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The Importance of Context Switching
The ability to keep doing things with your mind without getting exhausted is really demanding. Having to check an inbox quickly, again and again and again is that cognitive equivalent of running up 10 flights of stairs. When you when you cut it short in the middle of it and repeat it again and again, it's a disaster for our human brain.
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