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Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Importance of Deep Work in Productivity
The bottleneck, the thing that's going to control how long something takes is typically deep work. The speed up type productivity hacks work on the margins of that. So they save time on the margins, the intake and the output. But not in the core activity that actually determines most of the time it takes and most of the quality of what you produce.
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