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Ep. 109: How Much Should I Read?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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What Is the Best Strategy for the Immediate Post PhD?

If you want to do knowledge work at a professional level, you got to get your act together. Be very wary of getting distracted by self directed learning projects or other o efforts that seem difficult, but are tractabled. This is what you should be doing every day working on papers. You're reading the background for the paper. Youre writing an aspect of the paper. Your whole life should be, how do i produce the most and best papers in the short amount of time? It's temporarily an idea factory. In this case, your modelties are papers, as many as possible.

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