Newport - Deep Work [7bf6c237]
- Premised around distraction free work
- Getting into a state of flow
- GTD, but with focused blocks
- First principals approach of the book belies him being a programmer
- Originally negative thoughts, but overall now positive after reading
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Good quote about generic technology skill does not make a smart person
- hot wheels = ipad, GLM = automechanics
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Deliberate practice and setting aside time
- in 90 min chunks
- Schedule your whole day, block off areas that capture uncertainty
- Mythical man month
- Point on settled habits
- Interrogate your activities based on how difficult it is for a fresh college grad to do it
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Puts on the (possible) strawman of someone that works all the time, is busy with email all the time, and others
- the act of defining large blocks of time is useful, but I'm not the person that's on email all the time
- deliberately eliminating distractions during your deep work is important, stopped listening to music or taking breaks to look at phone
- Point on embracing bordem is good
- Scheduling downtime is good, you find yourself more happy when all work is meaningful