Quotes from Cal newport

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tasks that leverage your expertise tend to be deep tasks and they can therefore provide a double benefit: They return more value per time spent, and they stretch your abilities, leading to improvement.

In a 2009 paper, titled, intriguingly, "Why Is It So Hard to Do My Work?," Leroy introduced an effect she called attention residue. In the introduction to this paper, she noted that other researchers have studied the effect of multitasking—trying to accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously—on performance, but that in the modern knowledge work office, once you got to a high enough level, it was more common to find people working on multiple projects sequentially

Facebook'un bugün iki milyardan fazla kullan?c?s? var ve 500 milyar dolarl?k piyasa de?eriyle ABD'nin en de?erli be?inci ?irketi. Öte yandan petrol ve do?algaz ?irketi ExxonMobil'in de?eriyse yakla??k 370 milyar dolar. Anla??lan Facebook ve Google gibi ?irketlerin temel kayna?? olan insan dakikalar?n? toplamak, petrol ç?karmaktan çok daha kârl? bir i? art?k.

The two core abilities just described depend on your ability to perform deep work. If

Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There's no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn't change this reality.

By focusing intensely on a specific skill, you're forcing the specific relevant circuit to fire, again and again, in isolation. This repetitive use of a specific circuit triggers cells called oligodendrocytes to begin wrapping layers of myelin around the neurons in the circuits—effectively cementing the skill.

The goal of this book is to make the case for digital minimalism, including a more detailed exploration of what it asks and why it works, and then to teach you how to adopt this philosophy if you decide it's right for you.

entrenched companies are often unexpectedly dethroned by start-ups that begin with cheap offerings at the low end of the market, but then, over time, improve their cheap products just enough to begin to steal high-end market share. Grove recognized that Intel faced this threat from low-end processors produced by upstart companies like AMD and Cyrix.

A deep life is a good life.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

Si queremos triunfar, debemos producir lo mejor que nuestras capacidades nos permitan producir: se trata de una labor que requiere trabajo profundo.

The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy,

I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know.

The passion hypothesis is not just wrong, it's also dangerous. Telling someone to "follow their passion" is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst. Beyond

You can't, in other words, build a billion dollar empire like Facebook if you're wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.

Hours spent in serious study of the game was not just the most important factor in predicting chess skill, it dominated the other factors.

work on contributing a clever piece of computer code to an Open Source project.

some decisions are better left to your unconscious mind to untangle.

What mattered most in Mike's story is that once he stumbled through the door, his career capital went to work getting him a fantastic job offer.

this approach, in which you fit deep work wherever you can into your schedule, the journalist philosophy.

the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.

waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan.

We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.