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I've had a copy of this book for so long, but it reeks to me of something that should be a blog post I can read in 5 minutes, and so I've never been able to mus

• wheelinsupial 5y ago
  I guess you're lucky that Cal Newport starts with blog posts and turns them into books later. This post seems to be the one that introduced deep work. https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/ https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers... "Last week I introduced the deep work philosophy" in this blog post links to the one above: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/27/some-notes-on-deep-working/ https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/27/some-notes-on-dee...
• albertshin 5y ago
  I find many "productivity" books tend be easily summarizable... but reading the book is really to drill the concept in your head so that you're conscious of the tips/advice in your day to day. Plus, if you spread out the reading over a few days/weeks, you can apply what you've learned throughout the day as you read along.
• 100011_100001 5y ago
  It could be a blog post. Hell I can even summarize it with a few sentences. Work on one thing without distractions for big blocks of time, 1-4 hours. You will make great progress by concentrating on one thing at a time. ....there you have it