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“A 2012 McKinsey study found that the average knowledge worker now spends more than 60 percent of the workweek engaged in electronic communication and…

— Cal Newport

“Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge”

— Laurie Nadel

“The brevity of text messages, for example, and the fact that we are able to communicate with less than 140 characters at a time…

— Gregory Berns

“The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days.…

— Tom DeMarco

“Knowledge Management is a human problem and not a technological problem.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven’t done enough to question “how we’ve always done things”…

— Crystal Kadakia

“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain…

— Cal Newport

“Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility and guilt.”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“The idea that the best way to communicate with people is 24/7 is not really an idea about maximizing productivity.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“KNOWLEDGE CAN BE ACQUIRED ONLY THROUGH ACTION IN DAILY LIFE.”

— Théun Mares

“We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in…

— Mario Augusto Bunge

“On average, for every 12 million emails spammers send, they will get just one reply.”

— Jack West