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I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do take... See more
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do take... See more
Donald E. Knuth • Email (let's drop the hyphen)
He deleted almost every app from his phone.
Then he wrote 4 bestsellers in 9 years.
Cal Newport's controversial take: Your phone is making you mediocre.
His science-backed system for getting your brain back: https://t.co/JA6s73Htgf
Instead of quitting the Internet completely or on a weekly sabbatical, a more sensible approach is using offline / online time blocks,
edify.me • Summary of 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport. (2 Summaries in 1: In-Depth Summary and Bonus 2-Page PDF.)
This lesson, that doing less can enable better results, defies our contemporary bias toward activity, based on the belief that doing more keeps our options open and generates more opportunities for reward.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
This was Lesson 1 of The Anti-Brainrot Manual 📘
🧠 Your brain’s not broken. It just needs a reboot. And this is only the beginning. Save for later and follow for more.
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Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
be. You need to master the skill of covering hundreds of pages of text very quickly.
Cal Newport • How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
When I’m meditating consistently, I simply have fewer impulses to entertain and comfort myself, because ordinary moments feel more than good enough, most of the time. The smart phone is good barometer of this impulse, because it’s used as an instrument of escape much of the time—escape from boredom, escape from making the next decision, escape from... See more