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Ep. 27: Inside My Planning Discipline, the Joys and Sorrows of Slack, and Finding Depth Among Shallow Friends | DEEP QUESTIONS

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Negative Side of a Sinkerness Only Interaction Scheme in the Office

If unstructured adhawk messaging is crucial to how all work happens, then when people are not available for that communication, work slows down. It's why it doesn't work to simply say, okwe we shifted tho slack so that people won't be stressed out about their e male in boxes,. Just hay, if you feel overwhelmed by slack, just check it less. And then what you end up with is a context swet, a context switching hell, in which every three for minutes, you have to check on the slack cantl and every time you do that, you trigger a network context switch. You're constantly in a state of reduced cognitive capacity....

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