“ Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. Cal Newport
“ So we have scales that allow us to divide up people into people who multitask all the time and people who rarely do, and the differences are remarkable. People who multitask all the time can’t filter… Cal Newport
“ Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate Cal Newport
“ Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate. In an age of n… Cal Newport
“ My professional situation now couldn’t be more perfect, Scott reports. I chose to pursue the career I knew in my heart I was passionate about: politics…. I love my office, my friends… even my boss. Th… Cal Newport
“ Managing computer systems might not generate the daily bliss that defined Thomas’s old daydreams, but as he now recognized, nothing would. A fulfilling working life is a more subtle experience than hi… Cal Newport
“ Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.2 When Sims studied a variety of successful innovators, from Steve Jobs to Chris Rock to Frank Gehry, as well as innovat… Cal Newport
“ Let’s pull together the threads spun so far: Current economic thinking, as I’ve surveyed, argues that the unprecedented growth and impact of technology are creating a massive restructuring of our econ… Cal Newport
“ Laura also connects efforts to be a conscientious consumer with issues relating to social justice, which also play a big role in the Mennonite Church. Cal Newport
“ Knuth goes on to acknowledge that he doesn’t intend to cut himself off completely from the world. He notes that writing his books requires communication with thousands of people and that he wants to b… Cal Newport
“ Knowledge workers, I’m arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value. Cal Newport
“ Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet con… Cal Newport
“ It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis’s general mission into a specific success. Cal Newport
“ In a post-Enlightenment world we have tasked ourselves to identify what’s meaningful and what’s not, an exercise that can seem arbitrary and induce a creeping nihilism. Cal Newport
“ If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, follow you passion can be bad advice. It’s more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this gene… Cal Newport
“ If you want a mission, you need to first acquire capital. If you skip this step, you might end up like Sarah and Jane: with lots of enthusiasm but very little to show for it. Not Cal Newport
“ If you go after more control in your working life without a rare and valuable skill to offer in return, you’re likely pursuing a mirage. Cal Newport
“ I like the term stretch for describing what deliberate practice feels like, as it matches my own experience with the activity. When I’m learning a new mathematical technique—a classic case of delibera… Cal Newport
“ I have this principle about money that overrides my other life rules, he said. Do what people are willing to pay for. Cal Newport
