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Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.
Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.
Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.
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