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Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Importance of Productivity Systems and Tools
Sally Kohn: I was working on an article last week and my shift key didn't work very well. It had no impact on did I finish a draft of this article or not? The slowing down the actual physical task of writing turned out to have very little to do with the rate at which I actually produced quality work. She asks, why in other words, would I spend a lot of money on a remarkable tablet, but be okay that the shift key didn’t work on my laptop and my rate of writing got much slower)?Kohn: So that's what I want to do today. We'll take as our starting premise here, work related productivity systems or tools
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