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Ep. 239: On Time and Stress
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Problem with AI-Driven Time Blocking
Using AI to manage our time block schedule is perpetuating the computer processor metaphor of increasing speed and reducing friction of task execution. That's an entirely broken metaphor. Our issue is not that it takes us too much time to build our plan. The problem is having seven meetings per day where you're trying to scramble in between these meetings to try to answer slack messages. So, nope, I'm not a big believer in an AI driven time blocking app. I think my paper planner probably works just fine.
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