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>His work ethic is incredible >he spends 5 hours a day responding to emails from the public Since I read Deep Work, I think these phrases contradict each othe
by rhaps0dy 9y ago
>His work ethic is incredible
>he spends 5 hours a day responding to emails from the public
Since I read Deep Work, I think these phrases contradict each other. You don't do original, interesting work when replying emails.
- chrisbennet 9y agowork eth·ic, noun, the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward. (I didn't down vote you)
- rhaps0dy 9y agoI see. That's not quite the definition I was using in my head. According to that, if the emails are very well thought-out and written, it _is_ still hard work... I assumed that, for a work ethic, it had to be as useful as possible too. Oh well, thanks for correcting my mistake.
- abiox 9y ago> I assumed that, for a work ethic, it had to be as useful as possible too. do you mean to suggest that chomsky replying to these sorts of emails isn't all that useful?
- shoo 9y agothere can be value in unoriginal boring work