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with from our brief foray into the
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Gonzalez discusses computer program
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PART 2The Rules
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information you need for your proje
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established the following important
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years of email is plenty for one li
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Jung. In the 1920s, at the same tim
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a busy tour schedule. It was during
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for days at a time when the need to
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week, and then refine these decisio
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enough food of the right type to ma
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ply their trade. But it’s not the
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based, I argue, on an incomplete un
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themselves off.This combination of
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The story has become lore in the wo
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attention to improving the behavior
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thinking near paper submission dead
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ended up performing better.Observat
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play the same attention-restoring r
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open, I quickly skim every task in
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Rule #2Embrace BoredomTo better und
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People who multitask all the time c
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record the next time you’re allow
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To simplify matters, when schedulin
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Try this experiment no more than on
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back in the early weeks of my postd
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university with first-class honors.
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location is the mat in your front e
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pre-experiment Baratunde Thurston,
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justification for using a network t
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positive cash flow, because I can s
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circumstances. Lewis, for example,
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assesses what’s important in his
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abandon them—but not everyone. Yo
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normal routine. If he needed someth
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current blog, Study Hacks, from a h
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anything, with the rise of the Inte
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hours in semiconscious and unstruct
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Fewer official working hours helps
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consider the impact of meetings, ap
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(and likely will) go wrong with you
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about the rigid rituals followed by
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might also need some insight into t
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highly trained professional to send
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university,” she begins, before c
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Fixed-schedule productivity would h
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probably not respond, the experienc
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issues we discussed. Do you want to
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immediately “closes the loop” w
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questioned or ignored. Here’s the
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semester.This is also a lesson, as
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were stymieing me.As this year prog
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NotesIntroduction“In my retiring
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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen
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Chapter 2“the largest open floor
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can make a circumstantial case: She
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A Philosophical Argument for Depth
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Lightman.” Identity Theory, Novem
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of-multitasking. In a tragic twist,
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Don’t Use the Internet to Enterta
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* The complex reality of the techno
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* In the United States, there are t
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* In Part 2, I go into more detail
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* Supporters of open office plans m
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* There is some debate in the liter
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* Notice, the Internet sabbatical i
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* This idea has many different form
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