A new study finds that for many workers, AI increases shallow efforts while decreasing time focusing on what really matters. This is not the first digital productivity technology to create this paradoxical effect. In today’s episode, Cal dives deep into why this happens and then details three strategies for avoiding these traps in your own professional life.
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DEEP DIVE:
– Why Do “Productivity Technologies” Make My Job Worse? [3:22]
INBOX:
– An article about meetings [36:06]
– A case study on escaping email overload [47:25]
– A tool that makes the internet more boring [45:17]
WHAT IS CAL UP TO:
– Deep or Crazy? [57:02]
– What Cal read [57:06]
– Cal in the news [1:05:54]
BOOKS:
Reader, Come Home (Maryanne Wolf)
What Do You Say? (William Stixrud and Ned Johnson)
YOUTUBE TITLE:
– Why Is AI Making My Job *Worse*? | Cal Newport
LINKS:
Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow
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Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba?
https://pmresearcher.substack.com/p/why-meetings-multiply
https://docs.pluckeye.net/overview
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