An Excellent Wknd [25.25]
Three thoughts from Cal Newport
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🤔 3 THOUGHTS
Some ideas from the writer Cal Newport I’m contemplating this week:
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
from Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.
from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
If you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to e-mail, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you’re robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. Even if these work dashes consume only a small amount of time, they prevent you from reaching the levels of deeper relaxation in which attention restoration can occur. Only the confidence that you’re done with work until the next day can convince your brain to downshift to the level where it can begin to recharge for the next day to follow. Put another way, trying to squeeze a little more work out of your evenings might reduce your effectiveness the next day enough that you end up getting less done than if you had instead respected a shutdown.
from Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
On Tuesday, we’ve got an old friend back on the show to talk about the lessons, stories, & regrets from years of being one of the best in their field.
I’m excited to get this one to ya.
Until then, keep chasing.
🤙 Patrick
Nice! I love getting also those ideas from other authors that you are filtering out for us, always worth the read and saves us from scrolling!