Cal Newport

That feeling of fatigue, it really is fatigue is what it feels like, a mental fatigue.

Like there's sand in your brain, sand in the gears of your brain.

That's the state that a lot of people who work in front of a computer screen, like that's the state they're in most of the day.

And they don't even realize

oh, that's a bad feeling.

That's a negative state.

That's not how it needs to feel because you have nothing else to compare it to.

Yeah, the amount of things we're doing, the amount we're trying to switch back and forth, I always thought that part of the problem was a lot of our current thought about work culture and hustling and what it means to produce

was influenced by Silicon Valley in the 90s and 2000s because that was considered this very ascendant part of the economy, you know, through the 2000s, through the Steve Jobs era.

We looked at Silicon Valley, these are the coolest companies.

They're doing all the coolest stuff.

Over there, I think they adopted a model of work

that was very inspired by computer processors, right?

So because that was what was in the air in the 80s and 90s in Silicon Valley was the computer processor words, you know, the 386 versus the 486 versus the Pentium.

And it was all about speed.

And the thing with a computer processor, if you're a computer type,

What matters is you never want the pipeline to be empty, right?

You want to always make sure you have stuff for that processor to do so it never wastes time.

The processor will, every command you give it, it operates the same as any other.

It can switch.