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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Can You Explain Your Scheduling Principle to Productivity?

"My scheduling principle is to do the thing I hate most on my to do list by weeks and I'm very happy," he says. "I feel my productivity actually went down by half during the pandemic because I have to communicate by writing, which is slow." He also learned about planning from his mother who had this principle that was see something that needs to be done and do it.

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