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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” Managers who spend most of their lives in meetings should post that thought on their office walls.
Cass R. Sunstein • The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. But as those chunks get separated and fragmented, my productivity as a novelist drops spectacularly.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
When you separate work from the ad hoc conversations that surround it,
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The productivity equation is a non-linear one, in other words. This accounts for why I am a bad correspondent and why I very rarely accept speaking engagements. If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. But as those chunks get separated and fragmented, my productivity as
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Burnout, dissatisfaction, and the banal parade of meetings conspire to stifle productivity and make work less engaging. We