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Ep. 187: Helping 100K Employees Work Deeper

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How Do You Measure Contect Shifting in Knowledge Work?

In a world without email, the main thing you want to avoid in knowledge work is context shifts. The more people have to shift their cognitive contexts from one point of focus to another, the more attention residue you're creating. Unscheduled messages is a great proxy for reducing contact shifts and that's how i think about designing better processes in knowledge work.

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