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Ep. 109: How Much Should I Read?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Office Got Large in the Twenty-First Century

The pneumatic tube system was an alternative to voice mail. You would write your a message on a piece of paper, you'd put it in one of these plexy glass tubes. This was essentially a like a packet switching network. It underscored the length that people would go through to solve a critical problem in office productivity.

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