Managing yourself: Human factors

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News & Politics, News

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Economist’s Andrew Palmer seeks advice on managing your cognitive load, your career path and the changes that generative AI could bring. He gets tips from Cal Newport, an author and professor of computer science, on how to carve out time away from email; from Jeffery Pfeffer, of Stanford Graduate School of Business, on how to accumulate power; and from Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's co-founder, on how to get ready for the era of AI.

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