Deep Work

I am fairly certain most people cannot have their best ideas if they are in back to back meetings every day. You need time to question things and then research it. So, if you wonder why it’s hard to make ground breaking products after the first, look at your calendar.

Steve Jobs calling to build Apple "slowly and carefully" Powerful to see that led to a 3 trillion dollar company

Your company’s Slack, your Twitter timeline, your community Discord — these are great sources of ideas, inspiration, and research questions. But they are also an endless well of distraction, forever exerting a gravitational pull on your deep thinking. A thinking tool should help you take advantage of the information firehose, without drowning out y... See more

Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that I mig... See more