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“In the absence of more sophisticated measures of effectiveness,we also gravitate away from deeper efforts toward shallower, more concrete tasks that can be more easily checked off a to-do list.Long work sessions that don't immediately produce obvious contrails of effort become a source of anxiety—it's safer to chime in on email thread: and "jump on" calls than to put your head down and create a bold new strategy
— Sep 24, 2024 08:39AM
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“In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly sig-your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and e of the average knowledge worker's day being dedicated to ing about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in-ant electronic messaging.”
— Sep 24, 2024 08:41AM
