Deep Work
topic on 7 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 14 times in 9 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 4 
My First Million 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Starter Story 2 
20VC 2 
the Neon Show 1 
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Forsgren: Humans max out at four hours of deep work daily
“Gloria Mark has done some really good work on attention and deep work, and Cubans can get about four hours of good deep work a day. And like, that's about it.”
Cook: Product managers require three to four uninterrupted hours for creative flow
“You know, as PMs, we need time for creative work. We need that deep work time, and that doesn't happen when you've got all of these meetings with 30 minutes in between each of them. You need sort of, you know, three to four hours to get that going, to get into…”