Post A2vSEJVXMYUe5uMUYS by hinterwaeldler@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #A2vSEJGeFuaFLjObLc by hinterwaeldler@mastodon.social
       2021-01-05T06:02:36Z
       
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       "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me. My role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration."- Donald Knuth: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html#email #concentration #productivity
       
 (DIR) Post #A2vSEJVXMYUe5uMUYS by hinterwaeldler@mastodon.social
       2021-01-05T06:02:59Z
       
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       ☝️ I found this quote by Donald Knuth in Cal Newports book "Deep Work".
       
 (DIR) Post #A2vSEJsvxZCzGTJB1U by mellifluousbox@mastodon.social
       2021-01-05T07:49:54Z
       
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       @hinterwaeldler Thanks for sharing. What has extremely bothered me when reading Deep Work is that a certain arrogance of academics shine through the book's thesis.(1/2)
       
 (DIR) Post #A2vSEKNm6tsWo7jo5w by mellifluousbox@mastodon.social
       2021-01-05T07:51:30Z
       
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       @hinterwaeldler It is just so very easy and convenient for an established professor to say "I don't do emails." Why? It's an extremely top-heavy industry (in terms of power), where a prof can easily dictate for a whole department not to email him/her. I mean, which other modern job still has this benefit?Also, as Mr. Knuth writes in your link: he just outsourced it to his secretary, but he didn't solve the problem neither for society, his secretary or everyone else.(2/2)