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Ep. 218: Work vs. Meaning

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is Your Working Memory a Stable Storage?

There's a file on my desktop of my computer called working memory dot TXT. As I go out the day, I dump stuff in there that I can't keep track of in my head, pull it back out of there. This is temporary. It's not stable storage. And so there should be nothing on there when you're done with your day. Do you find yourself populating it when you're writing and you're writing blocks?

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