20 pins.

During a day, our maximum capacity is of doing 2 (max. 3) "deep work" sessions of 90 minutes (max.) with preferably 30 minutes break between each of them.

If we'd like to do deep work, we hence have a limit of around 20 such sessions a week even when we are working at our peak.

If we use a pin to represent each session and we divide the pins among the multiple projects and tasks in front of us, we will feel the tension of choosing one thing over another.

This tension is helpful and keeps us in check against filling our week with unimportant tasks.

HT to Andrew Huberman about the insight on the human capacity for deep work.

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