Deep Work

High-Level Thoughts

Deep work is an all or nothing technique. When you work, work hard. When you're done be done. Schedule block planned activities and outcomes every day.

Summary Notes

Tech racing ahead while skills lag

Most workers today succumb to increasingly visible busyness 

Attention Residue

Four rules of deep work- work deeply (create ritauls and routines), embrace boredom (train ability to embrace boredom), quit social media (deep living and social media don't mix), drain the shallows (schedule time for deep work and spend as little time on shallow work as possible).

Deep time management: monastic, bimodal, rhythmic, journalistic.

Identify a small number of ambitious outcomes to pursue with your deep work hours.

Systematic idleness- When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done. Shut down ritual.

Roosevelt dashes

Productive meditation

Structure every minute of day. Autopilot problem

Don't use the internet to entertain

80/20 Rule

Craftsman Approach