Cal Newport

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The Liz Moody Podcast · How To Work Less This Summer (And Still Get MORE Done) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Because if you do this over the year, you'll have produced much better stuff than if in the short term you try to jam more in.

So this is an example of a company that has explicitly put cycling into their employee handbook because they realize they produce more.

So if you're doing this sort of subtly,

You'll be okay because what's going to be noticed over the year is, oh, wow, you've done some really great stuff.

You've really produced some stuff we're proud of.

Great.

We're completely happy with you, right?

So yeah, you're absolutely right.

The omelet you make is going to be much better if you're not trying to break all four eggs at the same time.

Yeah, because as you move more towards the sort of structured workloads, you have less of this administrative overhead that you have to jump around and be very busy with.

And now you can take advantage of that reality.

So people can see like, oh, yeah, you're marching through projects.

A lot of stuff is getting done.

You have less meetings and emails that you have to frantically deal with.

Now it's much easier.

Like when I finish this project, I'm going to move this project to active, but maybe not really get started for a week.

Or I'm going to sit on this project even after it's basically done.

When you have this much more streamlined, structured way of handling your workload, now you really do have a lot more knobs to turn.

in terms of when you're working or how long you're working.

You find, for example, with a lot less administrative overhead, you can do things like I'm really working in the morning on this project and then not doing anything in the afternoon effectively.

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