Deep Questions with Cal Newport

By Cal Newport

Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap

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Published June 05, 2023 6:00am

Productivity YouTube is filled with breathless videos about optimizing systems and squeezing every ounce of speed out of your common habits. But does all of this efficiency really end up improving the quality of the most important things you produce? In this episode, Cal takes a deeper look at the different ways that productivity systems and tools can help your professional life, separating the boring but effective from the exciting but over-hyped. 

 

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