Cal Newport has been advocating Deep Work for years. He himself has been practicing it and was able to work 8 to 5 for 5 days a week, while still managing to pu

Cal Newport has been advocating Deep Work for years. He himself has been practicing it and was able to work 8 to 5 for 5 days a week, while still managing to publish high-quality papers to get his tenure and publishing books on self-improvement. Would his method help people working in academia? Working in industry is a different matter, though, especially for those in a big company. Senior engineers spend most in meetings, while still need to find time to write docs, building prototypes, diagnosing ops issues, and of course learning/deep diving technologies. I'm not sure if there's any solution to such problem except for such engineers to leave for a smaller company, where one is expected to build instead of being a "force multiplier".