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Without clear measures of value, knowledge workers fall back on looking busy
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- Cal Newport Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work
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.
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