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The Advantage Of Being A Little Underemployed
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As Fried expands: Very few people work even 8 hours a day. You’re lucky if you get a few good hours in between all the meetings, interruptions, web surfing, office politics, and personal business that permeate the typical workday. Fewer official working hours helps squeeze the fat out of the typical workweek. Once everyone has less time to get thei
... See morefrom Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Tim Ferriss
- If you anchor to the old world where good work meant physical action, it’s hard to wrap your head around the idea that the most productive use of a knowledge-worker’s time could be sitting on a couch thinking.
from Lazy Work, Good Work
or walking, commuting, having a conversation, smelling or tasting something.
