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Ep. 159: REPLAY: How Much Should I Read?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Trello Column Is a Great Way to Get Things Out of Your Head

When i was the director of graduate studies for the computer science department at georgetown, i had a standing meeting each week with my department chair and with the grad programm director that i would work with as well. Like when something would come up, i feel that obligation, id need to get an answer to this. It's in my head. To the hyperact of hide mind instinct is lik let m bother my department chare. Let me bother my programm director with a hastily written email. That temporarily gets this thing out from my head. But what's that really going to generate is could generate five or six back and forth messages that are going to pile up in my m box

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