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A Philosophical Argument for Depth “The world used to be”: from page xi of Dreyfus, Hubert, and Sean Dorrance Kelly. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. New York: Free Press, 2011. “The Enlightenment’s metaphysical embrace”: Ibid., 204. “Because each piece of wood is distinct”: Ibid., 210. “is not to generate meaning”: Ibid., 209. “Beautiful code is short and concise”: from a THNKR interview with Santiago Gonzalez available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw. “We who cut mere stones” and “Within the overall structure”: from the preface of Hunt, Andrew, and David Thomas. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master . New York: Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999. Homo Sapiens Deepensis “I’ll live the focused life”: from page 14 of Gallagher, Rapt. Rule #1 Hofmann, W., R. Baumeister, G. Förster, and K. Vohs. “Everyday Temptations: An Experience Sampling Study of Desire, Conflict, and Self-Control.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102.6 (2012): 1318–1335. “Desire turned out to be the norm, not the exception”: from page 3 of Baumeister, Roy F., and John Tierney. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. “taking a break from [hard] work”: Ibid., 4. Original study: Baumeister, R., E. Bratlavsky, M. Muraven, and D. M. Tice. “Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74 (1998): 1252–1265. Decide on Your Depth Philosophy “What I do takes long hours of studying” and “I have been a happy man”: from Donald Knuth’s Web page: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html. “Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration”: from Neal Stephenson’s old website, in a page titled “My Ongoing Battle with Continuous Partial Attention,” archived in December 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20031231203738/http://www.well.com/~neal/. “The productivity equation is a non-linear one”: from Neal Stephenson’s old website, in a page titled “Why I Am a Bad Correspondent,” archived in December 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20031207060405/http://www.well.com/~neal/badcorrespondent.html. Stephenson, Neal. Anathem. New York: William Morrow, 2008. For more on the connection between Anathem and the tension between focus and distraction, see “Interview with Neal Stephenson,” published on GoodReads.com in September 2008: http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/14.Neal_Stephenson. “I saw my chance”: from the (Internet) famous “Don’t Break the Chain” article by Brad Isaac, writing for
Lifehacker.com: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret. “one of the best magazine journalists”: Hitchens, Christopher, “Touch of Evil.” London Review of Books, October 22, 1992. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n20/christopher-hitchens/touch-of-evil. Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made . New York: Simon and Schuster Reissue Edition, 2012. (The original version of this book was published in 1986, but it was recently republished in hardcover due presumably to Isaacson’s recent publishing success.) “richly textured account” and “fashioned a Cold War Plutarch”: from the excerpts of reviews of Walter Isaacson’s The Wise Men that I found in the book jacket blurbs reproduced on Simon and Schuster’s official website for the book: http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Wise-Men/Walter-Isaacson/9781476728827. Ritualize “every inch of [Caro’s] New York office” and “I trained myself” and other details about Robert Caro’s habits: Darman, Jonathan. “The Marathon Man,” Newsweek, February 16, 2009, which I discovered through the following post, “Robert Caro,” on Mason Currey’s Daily Routines blog: http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2009/02/robert-caro.html. The Charles Darwin information was brought to my attention by the “Charles Darwin” post on Mason Currey’s Daily Routines, December 11, 2008. http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2008/12/charlesdarwin.html. This post, in turn, draws on Charles Darwin: A Companion by R.B. Freeman, accessed by Currey on The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. “There is a popular notion that artists”: from the following Slate.com article: Currey, Mason. “Daily Rituals.” Slate, May 16, 2013. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/features/2013/daily_rituals/john_updike_william_faulkner_chuck_close_they_d “[Great creative minds] think like artists”: from Brooks, David. “The Good Order.” New York Times , September 25, 2014, op-ed. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/opinion/david-brooks-routine-creativity-andpresident-obamas-un-speech.html?_r=1. “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth”: This Nietzsche quote was brought to my attention by the excellent book on walking and philosophy: Gros, Frédérick. A Philosophy of Walking. Trans. John Howe. New York: Verso Books, 2014. Make Grand Gestures “As I was finishing Deathly Hallows there came a day”: from the transcript of Rowling’s 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey on Harry Potter’s Page: http://www.harrypotterspage.com/2010/10/03/transcript-of-oprahinterview-with-j-k-rowling/. Details regarding J.K. Rowling working at the Balmoral Hotel: Johnson, Simon. “Harry Potter Fans Pay £1,000 a Night to Stay in Hotel Room Where JK Rowling Finished Series.” Telegraph, July 20, 2008. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2437835/Harry-Potter-fans-pay-1000-a-night-to-stay-in-hotelroom-where-JK-Rowling-finished-series.html. For more on Bill Gates’s Think Weeks: Guth, Robert A. “In Secret Hideaway, Bill Gates Ponders Microsoft’s Future.” Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2005. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB111196625830690477? mg=reno64-wsj. “It’s really about two and a half months”: from the following author interview: Birnbaum, Robert. “Alan
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Chapter One Deep Work Is Valuable A
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workers. Advances such as robotics
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employing only thirteen people. Whe
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how easy this is for me!?” Matt D
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subjects working on a set of word p
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one of many examples of business be
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concrete sense of accomplishment he
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cultivate important sources, pull t
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not be surprised that deep work str
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experience. This concept upends the
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Rule #1 Work Deeply Soon after I me
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his website: “What I do takes lon
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here succinctly: All of my time and
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At the same time, the bimodal philo
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Don’t Work Alone The relationship
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Discipline #1: Focus on the Wildly
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tangible results. Second, it helped
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capacity during your workday. It fo
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the Adirondacks, in the summer afte
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actual variables, or assumptions, o
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would likely be surprisingly numero
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Rule #3 Quit Social Media In 2013,
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understand the current default deci
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away from traditional monoculture c
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