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The “time-study man” was the forerunner to “high-level thinkers,” consultants, and idea men,
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
Structure Your Deep Thinking
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
let’s return to my friend’s trailside quip: “Not everyone does deep work all the time.” Notice that this claim applies to Marshall: outside of long flights or train rides, he rarely sat for hours at a time thinking big thoughts about one thing. But he also avoided falling into a responsiveness trap. He didn’t run around putting out fires; he instea
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George Prochnik’s explanation for why he wrote In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life, by Jeremy Campbell.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
The task of a craftsman, they conclude, “is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.”
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
