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Effort is evidence of broken feedback loops
In the absence of more sophisticated measures of effectiveness, we also gravitate away from deeper efforts toward shallower, more concrete tasks that can be more easily checked off a to-do list. Long work sessions that don’t immediately produce obvious contrails of effort become a source of anxiety—it’s safer to chime in on email threads and “jump
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
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