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Shallow work

Shallow work is the high-volume, low-cognitive-demand tasks that feel productive while depleting your capacity for deep thinking—email, notifications, surface-level problem-solving. Distinguishing it from necessary work requires brutal honesty about what actually requires your full attention and what just feels urgent.

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