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Cal Newport on Kurt Gödel's Time Management Notebooks

2 pointsby atomashevicalmost 2 years ago

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atomashevicalmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;m the listener who forwarded these screenshots to Cal.<p>They come from Gödel&#x27;s Philosophical Notebooks, specifically volume two which is about time management (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.degruyter.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1515&#x2F;9783110686586&#x2F;html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.degruyter.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1515&#x2F;9783110686586...</a>).<p>Notebooks provide fascinating insight into how Gödel dealt with issues of focus, productivity, producing meaningful work, dealing with distractions and similar topics Cal and many others often talk about.<p>These notebooks are from 1934 to 1955, the period in which he struggled to produce impactful work after incompleteness theorems.