“Treat shallow work with suspicion because its damage is often vastly underestimated and its importance vastly overestimated.”
— Cal Newport, Deep Work, p. 226
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Insight
Email, meetings, Slack feel productive but produce nothing the world will pay you for in 5 years.
Try this
Audit yesterday's work. Mark each block "deep" or "shallow." Cap shallow at <50% of working hours.
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