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How to slow down but achieve more, with Cal Newport

5/14/2024 • 22 min

The modern employee is overloaded. Alongside various projects, the average office worker has to deal with a huge administrative burden, responding to emails and instant messages, attending meetings, and trying to figure out which of their seemingly endless tasks is the most urgent. Academic, author and productivity expert Cal Newport thinks there’s a better way.… Play episode

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Why successful companies need to be good at failure
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