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A Knowledge Worker’s Manifesto — knowledge work studio
This is the future of work
Not man versus machine—but man with machine
Not just personal productivity—but organizational transformation
Not man versus machine—but man with machine
Not just personal productivity—but organizational transformation
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Win at Work and Succeed at Life: 5 Principles to Free Yourself from the Cult of Overwork
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Nowadays, almost everyone needs a way to manage information. More than half the workforce today can be considered “knowledge workers”—professionals for whom knowledge is their most valuable asset, and who spend a majority of their time managing large amounts of information.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Knowledge workers with highly trained skills, and the ability to produce high-value output with their brains, spend much of their time wrangling with computer systems, scheduling meetings, filling out forms, fighting with word processors, struggling with PowerPoint, and of course, above all, sending and receiving digital messages from everyone abou
... See moreCal Newport • A World Without Email
Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Slowly, through iteration, intuition, and conversation, a thesis emerged: the future of knowledge work is about jailbreaking out of the productivity paradigm to pursue the weird, the emotionally resonant, the creative, the sublime. And getting there takes time. —Sari Azout