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Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit

HBS Managing the Future of Work

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The Deep Work Book - How to Enable Deep Work in Your Organization

The way technology is evolving has increasingly impinged on the ability for people to lend substantial sustained focus on their job. In neuroscience, you have to avoid context switching in order to get anything near your full value of thought potential out of your brain. So we've accidentally created an environment where exactly the skill that produces the underlying value at most organizations is getting harder to do.

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