Ep. 133: How Do I Defeat Distraction?
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DEEP DIVE: Is the Desire to Produce Negative? [5:14]
DEEP WORK QUESTIONS
- What are the most popular workflows used to escape excessive email? [17:07]
- How do I read academic papers effectively? [27:40]
- How much studying is enough for a college student? [31:38]
- How do I defeat the allure of distraction? (Plus: Why Soto should get more MVP votes than Harper) [35:17]
- Is it too inefficient to copy a time block schedule into Outlook?…
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