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Donald Knuth is one of the greatest computer scientists alive quit email in 1990 & never looked back. His reason? Deep work requires deep focus. He communicates by postal mail, once every 6 months. While we’re drowning in social media & email notifications, this man is calmly finishing a masterpiece he started in 1962. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is simply be unreachable. This is worth reading for anyone who works in IT industry or beyond
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/email.htmlPublished at
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