reasons why people do not embrace deep work
Here are some reasons people do not embrace deep work:
- Principle of least resistance
- Can get answers immediately via messaging, without prior work planning
- Setting up weekly sync meetings as a way to keep their own work accountable
- Busyness as a proxy for productivity
- With metric black holes in knowledge work, it is hard to show you’ve been productive
- Being visibly busy via email and chat is one way to show you’re working hard
- The cult of the internet
- We assume that anything high tech is good for us without considering the consequencies of technology
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