David (@hellodavidryan)
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David (@hellodavidryan)
Starting in the 1990s, however, a lot of the activity that began dominating the attention of knowledge workers like Mann wasn’t the execution of discrete tasks, but instead interactions with others about these tasks. The introduction of personal computers, followed soon after by electronic communication tools like email, transformed office collabor
... See moreWhat the rise of the large office really needed—a productivity silver bullet of sorts—was some way to combine the speed of synchronous communication with the low overhead of asynchronous communication.
First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth. Therefore, the hub-and-spoke model provides a crucial template. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. You should try to optimize each effort separately, as opposed to mixing them together into a sludge that impedes both go
... See moreoffices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits.