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"We've become so enmeshed in the #Attention economy that it can seem impossible to fathom leaving it for a large part of your day." - Cal Newport - Author of Deep Work

The attention economy thrives on fragmentation, where eve...

#Quote: #CalNewport – Author of #DeepWork - https://with.ga/ppsjl
"We've become so enmeshed in the #Attention economy that it can seem impossible to fathom leaving it for a large part of your day." - Cal Newport - Author of Deep Work

The attention economy thrives on fragmentation, where eve...

In Defense of Thinking Ten years ago, I published ​ _Deep Work_ ​ _._ It was my second mainstream hardcover idea book. The previous title, ​ _So Good They Can’t Ignore You_ ​ _,_ hadn’t sold as well as we hoped, so the expectations were lower for this follow-up. This turned out to be freeing, as it allowed me to write _Deep Work_ largely for myself – exploring the conceptual edges of the issues surrounding distraction that interested me most. I was fascinated, for example, by the economic reality that so many knowledge work organizations systematically undervalued focus, and was convinced that this provided a massive opportunity for those willing to correct for this mistake. In this way, I saw myself as articulating something like _Moneyball_ for the cubicle class. I also firmly believed that the act of thinking was at the core of the post-Paleolithic human experience; the source of our greatest ideas, satisfactions, and even moments of transcendence. This mixture of the economic and philosophical was different from the typical book in this genre at the time. Readers probably expected that I would open on a breathless tale of an overworked executive, then regurgitate some stats about interruptions, before proceeding with long lists of tips calibrated to be practical, but also not too challenging, presented in a conversational tone and accompanied by clearly manipulated case studies. But _Deep Work_ was much weirder and more intense than that. Re-reading it recently, I was struck by how many of my stories had nothing to do with the knowledge sector at all. I quoted philosophers of religion and a blacksmith who forged swords with ancient techniques. I profiled a memory champion and discussed _chavruta,_ the Jewish practice of studying Talmud or Torah in pairs. Rather than opening the book on a frustrated executive, I focused on Carl Jung’s efforts to break free from Sigmund Freud’s capriciousness. It was a direct look at the sources and ideas that most resonated with me. This idiosyncratic approach seemed to reveal something fundamentally true about the problematic state of work at that time, as the book soon found an audience, going on to sell more than two million copies in over forty-five languages. (In its wake, _So Good They Can’t Ignore You_ finally found its groove as well, quietly selling more than half a million copies, providing me with a dash of retrospective vindication.) All of this led me recently to ask a natural follow-up question: **How have things changed since that book first came out in 2016?** I tackled this query in ​a long-form essay​ I published in the _New York Times_ over the weekend. My answer wasn’t optimistic: > “The problems I focused on in _Deep Work_ , and in my writing since, have been getting steadily worse. In 2016 my main concern was helping people find enough free time for deep work. Today I think we’re rapidly losing the ability to think deeply at all, regardless of how much space we can find in our schedules for these efforts.” Distractions in the workplace intensified over the past decade with the addition of instant messaging tools like Slack and low-friction digital meeting programs like Zoom. Outside of work, social media, which was generally still admired when _Deep Work_ came out, has morphed into an addictive TikTok-ified slurry of optimized brain rot. Meanwhile, new AI tools offer quick-fix short-cuts to whatever intellectually engaging work activities remain. None of this is great news. So, what should we do? The obvious short answer is to read ​ _Deep Work_.​ (Or, if you already have, buy some copies for people you know who need to hear its message!) But that’s only a small step toward our larger goal of a world in which we once again respect the act of cognition. In my _Times_ piece, I suggest a louder response: we launch a revolution in defense of thinking. I go on to suggest multiple concrete actions that such a revolution can include, such as: * Stop consuming social media (which is, if we are being honest, digital junk food and something adults largely need to eliminate from a healthy content diet). * Keep your phone plugged in and charging when at home instead of on your person. * Push Congress to follow Australia’s lead and ban social media for kids. * Build work cultures in which phones and laptops stay out of meetings, and find collaboration strategies that don’t require constant messaging. * Stop vague demands to “use AI” and instead carefully integrate these tools where they actually make us smarter, not just busier. But more important than any specific suggestion is the larger spirit of revolution. “I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of technology billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles,” I write in the conclusion of my _Times_ op-ed. “It’s time to move past fretting about our slide into the cognitive shallows and decide to actually do something about it.”

In Defense of Thinking, by #CalNewport

https://calnewport.com/in-defense-of-thinking-2/

#DeepWork #AI #SocialMedia

Interesting input on all this noise out there.

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#calnewport #ai #realitycheck

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Deep focus is a competitive advantage in a distracted world. Protect it, and you create work that truly matters. #calnewport #deepwork #bookstoread

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The Energy Matrix

Not all hours are equal.

High energy → Deep work, creative tasks
Medium energy → Meetings, collaboration
Low energy → Admin, emails, routine

Match the task to the energy. Stop forcing it.

#discipline #energy #deepwork #calnewport

Focus is becoming rare, and that’s exactly why it matters.

In this episode of Coffee Digest, I break down four key insights from Deep Work by Cal Newport and why the ability to focus deeply is a powerful advantage today, a superpower! #deepwork #calnewport

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Focus is a skill, not a personality trait.

One of the key takeaways from Cal Newport's Deep Work, focus isn't something you either have or don't have. It's a skill you hone by practicing concentration and reducing distractions, not by multitasking harder. #calnewport #deepwork #productivity

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
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Be Wary of Digital Deskilling Last week, Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s popular Claude Code programming agent, posted ​a thread on X​ about how he personally used the AI tool in his own work. It created a stir. “What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development,” explained a ​ _VentureBeat_ article​ about the incident. As Cherny explained, he runs five different instances of the coding agent at the same time, each in its own tab in his terminal: ‘While one agent runs a test suite, another refactors a legacy module, and a third drafts documentation.’ He cycles rapidly through these tabs, providing further instruction or gentle prods to each agent as needed, checking their work, and sending them back to improve their output. One user, responding to the thread, ​described the approach​ like playing the famously fast-paced video game Starcraft. The _VentureBeat_ article described Cherny as operating like a “fleet commander.” It all seemed like a lot of fun. But here’s the thing: If I were a software developer, I would be wary of any such demonstration. In his 1974 book, ​ _Labor and Monopoly Capital_ ​, the influential Marxist political economist Harry Braverman argued that the expanding “science-technical revolution” was being exploited by companies to increasingly “deskill” workers; to leave them in “ignorance, incapacity, and thus in fitness for machine servitude.” The more employees outsource skilled activity to machines, the more controllable they become. It’s hard not to hear echoes of Braverman’s deskilling argument in something like Cherny’s AI programming demo. A world in which software development is reduced to the ersatz management of energetic but messy digital agents is a world in which a once important economic sector is stripped down to fewer, more poorly paid jobs, as wrangling agents requires much less skill than producing elegant code from scratch. The consumer would fare no better, as the resulting software would be less stable and innovation would slow. The only group that would unambiguously benefit from deskilling developers would be the technology companies themselves, which could minimize one of their biggest expenses: their employees. Boris Cherny is a senior technical lead at Anthropic who manages a large team and likely owns a significant amount of stock options in the company. Of course, _he’s_ excited about the idea of agents replacing programmers, but that doesn’t mean we have to share his enthusiasm. — P.S., I don’t mean to deny the value of AI tools for programmers. I’ve talked to many developers who have found great utility in using AI to help (​apparently​) speed up programming tasks. What makes me suspicious is the claim that shifting to a world in which you just assign agents work is somehow just the natural next step in programming productivity. It might seem cool in the moment, but something more profound and dark might be lurking beneath these gee-whiz demos.

Be Wary of Digital Deskilling - #CalNewport
https://calnewport.com/be-wary-of-digital-deskilling/

#AI

Top 9 Books I Most Love for Parents and Students – JeannieBurlowski.com It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20somethings, and students ages 12 and up.

It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20-somethings, and students ages 12 and up. @daveramsey1.bsky.social #CalNewport #DrMegJay #StevenFurtick #LoveandLogic

New York times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work Cal Newport New York times bestseller Slow Productivity The lost art of accomplishment without burnout

#SlowProductivity is a #business #selfhelp book detailing studies regarding work pace and how slowing down benefits everyone. Valuable content although the writing itself tends a bit repetitive and bland 💙📚 4.5/10
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İlham Aldıklarımız: Cal Newport,

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Top 9 Books I Most Love for Parents and Students – JeannieBurlowski.com It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20somethings, and students ages 12 and up.

It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20-somethings, and students ages 12 and up. @daveramsey1.bsky.social #CalNewport #DrMegJay #StevenFurtick #LoveandLogic

Top 9 Books I Most Love for Parents and Students – JeannieBurlowski.com It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20somethings, and students ages 12 and up.

It's true—a carefully chosen book can actually change your life. Here, the top 9 books I most love for parents, 20-somethings, and students ages 12 and up. @daveramsey1.bsky.social #CalNewport #DrMegJay #StevenFurtick #LoveandLogic

In a world addicted to noise, silence became intelligence.
“Deep Work” — a reminder that focus is not a trend. It’s a craft.

#Neurosnob #DeepWork #CalNewport #Philosophy #ModernMind #AestheticIntelligence #ThoughtCulture

The Power of the Outdoor Office - Cal Newport The Weirdo in the Woods I took this picture last week. While most people enter the woods with a hiking stick, or perhaps a dog, ... Read more

The Power of the Outdoor Office

There’s a surprising power to retreating to an outside office when there is serious thinking to be done.
Part of this power comes from the lack of interruptions. I

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#OutDoorOffice #ThinkingDay #CalNewport #SlowProductivity

What Exactly Is Digital Minimalism? #calnewport #digitaldeclutter #digitalminimalism #intentionalliving #mindfultech #minimalism #productivity #techstress
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Cette réflexion de Cal Newport nous rappelle combien il est essentiel de reprendre le contrôle de notre vie numérique : choisir nos outils en conscience, comprendre leurs usages et poser nos propres limites💡
#VieNumérique #SouverainetéNumérique #Technologie #Réflexion #CalNewport

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Insights Into Books podcast. "Deep Work" is rare & valuable compared to shallow work of emails and meetings in modern economy. For fans of "Atomic Habits," "Essentialism," and other productivity books. #DeepWork #QuoteOfTheDay #Productivity #Focus #CalNewport #BookQuotes

Image post for the Insights Into Books Podcast summarizing Cal Newport's "Deep Work." Explains the core concept: sustained, distraction-free concentration versus shallow work like email and meetings. A guide to producing high-quality work by mastering focus. Perfect for listeners interested in productivity books like "Atomic Habits," "Essentialism," and "The ONE Thing." #DeepWork #CalNewport #Productivity #BookSummary #Focus #TimeManagement #SelfHelp #Podcast

Core concept: sustained, distraction-free concentration versus shallow work like email and meetings. Perfect for listeners interested in productivity books like Atomic Habits, Essentialism, and The ONE Thing. #DeepWork #CalNewport #Productivity #BookSummary #Focus #Podcast

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Your Brain Isn't Broken. It's Just Untrained. Your ability to focus isn't broken. It's under attack. In a world of endless notifications and constant distractions, the person who can concentrate is the one with the superpower. This is your guide to getting that power back. In this episode, we're diving deep into Cal Newport's revolutionary concept of "Deep Work." You'll learn why your ability to focus is a muscle, not a gift, and we'll give you the five essential exercises to build your "focus muscle" into an unbreakable force. We'll explore the four distinct deep work styles—from the "monastic" to the "journalistic"—to help you find the perfect fit for your life. This isn't just theory; it's a tactical playbook. We're unpacking eleven practical strategies to engineer your life for peak productivity and unlock that elusive flow state where you do your best work and feel your best. Stick with us to the very end to learn about the simple, five-minute "shutdown ritual" that will allow you to truly unplug from work and reclaim your evenings forever. It's time to stop being a victim of distraction and start becoming the architect of your attention. Subscribe, share this with your most distracted friend, and let's get to work.

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The Deep Work Dividend: How Focused Effort Translates to Tangible Career and Financial Gains "Unlock your career potential with Deep Work. Learn how focused, distraction-free effort can increase your income, job satisfaction, and value."

Beyond Busyness: How 'Deep Work' Unlocks Unexpected Value and Career Ascent in a Distracted Age

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Read : Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

What if you were letting life pass you by because you are glued to your phone? Newport presents here a method to change all that and life your life to it's full potential.

Cote : 6/10
ISBN : 9780241341131
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Social media is part of our daily life.

But do we worry too much about its effects?

Cal Newport shares a point of view that made me pause.

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