“ When I told Mark about Jordan, he agreed that an obsessive focus on the quality of what you produce is the rule in professional music. It trumps your appearance, your equipment, your personality, and… Cal Newport
“ We like to think of innovation as striking us in a stunning eureka moment, where you all at once change the way people see the world, leaping far ahead of our current understanding. I’m arguing that i… Cal Newport
“ We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity. Cal Newport
“ We could, of course, eliminate this anachronistic commitment to busyness if we could easily demonstrate its negative impact on the bottom line, but the metric black hole enters the scene at this point… Cal Newport
“ To reestablish control, we need to move beyond tweaks and instead rebuild our relationship with technology from scratch, using our deeply held values as a foundation. Cal Newport
“ To concentrate requires what ART calls directed attention. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you’ll struggle to concentrate. (For Cal Newport
“ To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction. Cal Newport
“ Though Grant’s productivity depends on many factors, there’s one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stre… Cal Newport
“ This new science of performance argues that you get better at a skill as you develop more myelin around the relevant neurons, allowing the corresponding circuit to fire more effortlessly and effective… Cal Newport
“ This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability to do hard things consistently. For our purposes, it provides a s… Cal Newport
“ The use of network tools can be harmful. If you don’t attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then yo… Cal Newport
“ The subjects succeeded in resisting these particularly addictive distractions only around half the time. Cal Newport
“ The more I studied the issue, the more I noticed that the passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there’s a magic right job waiting for them, and that if they find it, they’ll immediately r… Cal Newport
“ The Second Control Trap The point at which you have acquired enough career capital to get meaningful control over your working life is exactly the point when you’ve become valuable enough to your curr… Cal Newport
“ The Pragmatic Programmer, a well-regarded book in the computer programming field, makes this connection between code and old-style craftsmanship more directly by quoting the medieval quarry worker’s c… Cal Newport
“ The Law of Remarkability For a mission-driven project to succeed, it should be remarkable in two different ways. First, it must compel people who encounter it to remark about it to others. Second, it… Cal Newport
“ The Great Restructuring, unlike the postwar period, is a particularly good time to have access to capital. Cal Newport
“ The 4DX framework is based on the fundamental premise that execution is more difficult than strategizing. Cal Newport
