David (@hellodavidryan)
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David (@hellodavidryan)
Starting in the 1990s, however, a lot of the activity that began dominating the attention of knowledge workers like Mann wasn’t the execution of discrete tasks, but instead interactions with others about these tasks. The introduction of personal computers, followed soon after by electronic communication tools like email, transformed office collabor
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
What the rise of the large office really needed—a productivity silver bullet of sorts—was some way to combine the speed of synchronous communication with the low overhead of asynchronous communication.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
You should protect your team’s “deep work” at all costs. Traditional work environments optimize for rapid-fire communication. Meetings, Slack, text messages, and stand-ups are examples. Levels thinks these defaults are disastrous and reduce the amount of “deep work” its team can do. It does everything possible to protect this time.
readthegeneralist.com • Levels: A Cultural Anomaly | the Generalist
First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth. Therefore, the hub-and-spoke model provides a crucial template. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. You should try to optimize each effort separately, as opposed to mixing them together into a sludge that impedes both go
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are wor... See more
Richard Hamming • You and Your Research
offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits.