The intensity of our work varies over time. Modern knowledge workers adopt a factory model in which you work for set hours each day at a continually high level of intensity without significant breaks. Foragers by contrast had many more breaks interspersed throughout their daily efforts. So we are used to this idea that we have work hours during work hours. We're always going.
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