![]() ![]() Better tweet 20 times a day and fake knowing it all than not tweeting for one month.Īs a remote worker you can have more opportunities for remote work. It’s better to act busy than seemingly be unproductive while trying to perform deep work. There is no way to measure deep work, and how well you are performing on it, so it’s discouraged at all levels. The business world wants us to have clear, measurable and micromanaged steps we need to take every day, reply to emails ASAP, and in general do shallow work, the opposite of deep work. Too many people, too many meetings, too many emails and phone calls don’t let you focus. People working at big companies almost never get the chance to perform deep work because of how those companies operate. If you don’t perform deep work, someone else will and will be more valuable than you in the long term. Great musicians are worth the concert ticket price because of all the deep work performed in the past, that made their career. The more focused, the less time it will take. Learning is a skill that needs lots of focused time. It lets you learn quickly and in a very profound way. Or someone else would work there, not you. If you stopped learning about those new machineries at the factory, the factory would have been out of business. If you stopped learning how phones work 10 years ago, you’d be out of the society. There is no evolution without learning, and we learn all our lifetime. The book starts by defining the 3 main properties of deep work:Īs knowledge workers, our most important ability is to know how to learn and master new things quickly, and to apply this knowledge to our craft. Do awesome work and you will thrive, because deep work is one of the rarest things nowadays in a society that’s so prone to distractions and immediate gratification. ![]() You are doomed to mediocrity unless you are able to do your best work, otherwise people will go and “follow” the person living 10.000 miles from you, doing a better job than you.Īnxious already? There’s a way though: deep work. The book makes a great point: the internet makes our world very small and we compete with people all around the globe. Or you’ll stall in a limbo in terms of abilities and career. You can’t just stop learning new things, right? You always need this kind of quality time to perform. In my opinion the only way to perform great work is to spend lots of hours alone, with nothing that can distract and let your mind wander.Īs a knowledge worker, you need to keep doing this kind of work all your lifetime. I am lucky enough to have never been in an office except in my internship, and I always worked from home, although this comes with its own set of challenges. ![]() I read stories of people waking up early and getting to the office to work before all the other people arrive, or work at home after work because at work there were too many distractions. It’s not a mystery that open offices are bad for productivity. ![]() We need to have all those castles in mind when we are working on a piece of code, and the smallest of the distractions can really affect our ability to work. This concept is very common to programmers. The TL DR of the book is: to do great work you need to put yourself in an environment that lets you have lots of time focused, uninterrupted, distraction free. This is one of the most suggested books around, and it’s one of the best I read so far. I added some of my personal observations and experience. In this post I distill the key concepts that I learned from the Deep Work book by Cal Newport. ![]()
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