Intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval.
Suggests that you transform the way you think about the different flavors of one-click approval indicators that populate the social media universe. Instead of seeing these easy clicks as a fun way to...
When we step back from these individual observations, we see a clear argument form: To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free fr...
Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people? Cooper asks. They are programming people,
People have the need to put their hands on tools and to make things. We need this in order to feel whole. As Rogowski explains: Long ago we learned to think by using our hands, not the other way aroun...
To work deeply is a big deal and should not be an activity undertaken lightly.
As the author Max Brooks quipped in a 2017 TV appearance, We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.
RULE #1 Don’t Follow Your Passion
The reason knowledge workers are losing their familiarity with deep work is well established: network tools.
To summarize, I’ve presented two different ways people think about their working life. The first is the craftsman mindset, which focuses on what you can offer the world. The second is the passion mind...
Their plans were circumspect and small-time. They weren’t dreaming of taking over the world.
I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.
Network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.
Intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master.* To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires that you hone your ability to master hard things. And be...
The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained. This idea might sound obvious once it’s pointed out, but it represents a departure from how most people understand such matters. I...
These e-mails take the sender only a handful of seconds to write but can command many minutes (if not hours, in some cases) of time and attention from their recipients to work toward a coherent respon...
When you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. This residue gets especially t...
Once we view these personal technology processes through the perspective of diminishing returns, we’ll gain the precise vocabulary we need to understand the validity of the second principle of minimal...
This strategy is classic digital minimalism. By removing your ability to access social media at any moment, you reduce its ability to become a crutch deployed to distract you from bigger voids in your...
Shankman did something unconventional. He booked a round-trip business-class ticket to Tokyo. He wrote during the whole flight to Japan, drank an espresso in the business class lounge once he arrived...
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