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Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Importance of Expansiveness in Academic Work
Academia is a weird job because unlike other jobs, it doesn't have this diverse input of tasks and obligations that you need to be working on all day long. I think expansiveness and autonomy and schedules can be very uncomfortable for people if they are not used to it. You get a lot of grad students and postdocs who try to lean into finding pain points of busyness.
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