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Episode 100: How did we get here?

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The Importance of a Degree in Linguistics

Any background can be useful, because the vocabulary that have to manage and corral covers every field. We need specialists as well as generalists. John morse used to say the work itself was the mental equivalent of taking a standardized test. That's why we don't interrupt each other. Being interrupted can brighten your day, but it can also completely cause you to lose your train of thought. And now we can choose when we are interrupted, when we choose to check slack or check our email. So but yet, you can be completely derailed by showing up at your cubicle when you are in the middle of defining something. It's horrible. A lot of different pathsn i think

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