cover of episode #255: Why You Should Charge Less After Lunch, with Dan Pink

#255: Why You Should Charge Less After Lunch, with Dan Pink

2019/12/19
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Dan Pink suggests that your legal work probably isn’t as valuable in the afternoons—the “trough” of your day. (For similar reasons, he avoids afternoon doctor appointments and thinks you should, too.) In this episode Dan discusses the science of timing and productivity, the subject of his latest book, When, and also compensation and motivation, the subject of Drive.

Also, Dan says science doesn’t think much of the billable hour:

The billable hour is one of the most autonomy-thwarting, controlling, self-direction inhibiting mechanisms that one has. It puts the focus on the clock rather than on the work.

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