Quotes from Cal newport

The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way.

Maher looked into the camera and said: The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.

Sosyal medya üzerinde çal??an ve dersler veren bir akademisyenin sözlerini al?nt?layacak olursam: Bu kadar çok insanla irtibat halinde olmam?za gerek yok.

To be great at something is to be well myelinated.

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In other words, I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can't ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer.

The rapid rise of communication and collaboration technologies has transformed many other formerly local markets into a similarly universal bazaar. The

Getting involved with research early is like drinking an elixir of success. It's one of the most commonly overlooked and effective secrets for winning at college. Don't let this opportunity pass you by.

Thoreau's obsession with calculation helps us move past the vague subjective sense that there are trade-offs inherent in digital clutter, and forces us instead to confront it more precisely. He asks us to treat the minutes of our life as a concrete and valuable substance—arguably the most valuable substance we possess—and to always reckon with how much of this life we trade

An auction market, by contrast, is less structured: There are many different types of career capital, and each person might generate a unique collection. The cleantech space is an auction market. Mike Jackson's capital, for example, included expertise in renewable energy markets and entrepreneurship, but there are a variety of other types of relevant skills

Turning her attention to the workplace, Turkle finds young employees who retreat to email because the thought of an unstructured conversation terrifies them, and unnecessary office tensions that fester when communication shifts from nuanced conversation to ambiguous connection.

put into our terminology, enthusiasm alone is not rare and valuable and is therefore not worth much in terms of career capital.

law of productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

adopt the craftsman mindset first and then the passion follows.

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

toward distracting behavior, because in an Internet-centric technopoly such behavior is not up for discussion.

The first is the craftsman mindset, which focuses on what you can offer the world. The second is the passion mindset, which instead focuses on what the world can offer you. The craftsman mindset offers clarity, while the passion mindset offers a swamp of ambiguous and unanswerable questions.

If you want to become a superstar, mastering the relevant skills is necessary, but not sufficient

People fight desires all day long.

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.

And as Jason Fried discovered, if you not only eliminate shallow work, but also replace this recovered time with more of the deep alternative, not only will the business continue to function; it can become more successful.

The Art of Focus,

the notification symbol for Facebook was originally blue, to match the palette of the rest of the site, "but no one used it."16 So they changed the color to red—an alarm color—and clicking skyrocketed.