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Making Sense with Sam Harris · May 13, 2024 · 75m
#363 — Knowledge Work
Cal Newport on the crisis in knowledge work. Email and Slack destroyed deep work. His solution: redesign workflows around human cognition rather than forcing human cognition to adapt to digital tools. Slow Productivity as an alternative to hustle culture.
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Newport: when email arrived, nobody redesigned workflows to accommodate it. Instead, work was restructured around the inbox — the tool shaped the environment, and the environment shaped behavior.
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Newport: hustle culture is the hedonic treadmill applied to work. Each productivity gain raises expectations, so you never feel 'caught up.' Slow Productivity breaks the cycle by capping throughput.
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