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This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?

by amerine 10y ago

throw20160915 10y ago
http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
- henrik_w 10y ago
  +1 for the book - really good!
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mattkrause 10y ago
I feel like the hype around deep learning is slowly spreading to all "deep [Noun Phrase]" phrases.
- amelius 10y ago
  We're in deep shit now.
- imgabe 10y ago
  It's pretty unrelated to deep learning.
  - mattkrause 10y ago
    That's my point.... Remember how in the late '90s, everything was e-/i-/cyber, even things that were only tangentially related to computers or networking? It feels like that. Today, I've seen posts and ads for "deep work", "deep analytics", "deep thinking", (not using anything recognizable as deep learning), and a few other things. Most of these are more-or-less idiomatic, but I think they would have been called something else 5 or 10 years ago.
    - imgabe 10y ago
      I can't really speculate on what might have happened 5 or 10 years ago, but I've read the book and have been following Cal Newport for a while (I read his previous book too) and it doesn't strike me as an attempt to capitalize on the "deep learning" trend. I mean, it's not even tangentially related other than that the author happens to be a computer science professor (who works on distributed systems, not AI).
martin-adams 10y ago
I was new to it as well when a commenter on my YouTube channel recommended the Deep Work book. Listened to the audio book and really, really appreciated it. Deep work is now something I aspire to get better at because I'd been feeling it was something I was missing for a while now. I think of it like getting in the zone with coding where you get deeply valuable work done without distractions.
qntty 10y ago
This is the blog post that (I believe) coined the term: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/ http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...
davidvaughan 10y ago
I think it's a new term for something very old. People who needed to do serious work went to monasteries or lived in caves. The biggest distraction for many people is other people. Solitude is the way to get real work done. There's a lot of interesting stuff here: http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ http://www.hermitary.com/articles/

This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?

by amerine 10y ago

This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?

throw20160915 10y ago

http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

henrik_w 10y ago
+1 for the book - really good!

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mattkrause 10y ago

I feel like the hype around deep learning is slowly spreading to all "deep [Noun Phrase]" phrases.

amelius 10y ago
We're in deep shit now.
imgabe 10y ago
It's pretty unrelated to deep learning.
- mattkrause 10y ago
  That's my point.... Remember how in the late '90s, everything was e-/i-/cyber, even things that were only tangentially related to computers or networking? It feels like that. Today, I've seen posts and ads for "deep work", "deep analytics", "deep thinking", (not using anything recognizable as deep learning), and a few other things. Most of these are more-or-less idiomatic, but I think they would have been called something else 5 or 10 years ago.
  - imgabe 10y ago
    I can't really speculate on what might have happened 5 or 10 years ago, but I've read the book and have been following Cal Newport for a while (I read his previous book too) and it doesn't strike me as an attempt to capitalize on the "deep learning" trend. I mean, it's not even tangentially related other than that the author happens to be a computer science professor (who works on distributed systems, not AI).

martin-adams 10y ago

I was new to it as well when a commenter on my YouTube channel recommended the Deep Work book. Listened to the audio book and really, really appreciated it. Deep work is now something I aspire to get better at because I'd been feeling it was something I was missing for a while now. I think of it like getting in the zone with coding where you get deeply valuable work done without distractions.

qntty 10y ago

This is the blog post that (I believe) coined the term: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/ http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...

davidvaughan 10y ago

I think it's a new term for something very old. People who needed to do serious work went to monasteries or lived in caves. The biggest distraction for many people is other people. Solitude is the way to get real work done. There's a lot of interesting stuff here: http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ http://www.hermitary.com/articles/