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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b76abc9 | Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things. | Cal Newport | ||
| 2a525ed | Professional Goal: To craft well-written, narrative-driven stories that change the way people understand the world. Key Activities Supporting This Goal: * Research patiently and deeply. * Write carefully and with purpose. | Cal Newport | ||
| ed2477d | Thoreau's new economics was developed in an industrial age, but his basic insights apply just as well to our current digital context. | Cal Newport | ||
| 09dad75 | Laura also connects efforts to be a "conscientious consumer" with issues relating to social justice, which also play a big role in the Mennonite Church." | Cal Newport | ||
| 270e6bb | The traits that define great work are bought with career capital, the theory argues; they don't come from matching your work to your innate passion. | Cal Newport | ||
| 7b5f2c8 | Mike Jackson leveraged the craftsman mindset to do whatever he did really well, thus ensuring that he came away from each experience with as much career capital as possible. He never had elaborate plans for his career. Instead, after each working experience, he would stick his head up to see who was interested in his newly expanded store of capital, | Cal Newport | ||
| 2507598 | The flowers anew returning seasons bring!But beauty faded has no second spring. | Ambrose Philips | ||
| 973fe9d | There solid billows of enormous size,Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise. | Ambrose Philips | ||
| 8a7f053 | In my work on this topic, I've become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else. | Cal Newport | ||
| 0e7dcba | when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow--a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. This residue gets especially thick if your work on Task A was unbounded and of low intensity before you switched, but even if you finish Task A before moving on, your attention remains divided for a while. | Cal Newport | ||
| 9436ec9 | 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 | Cal Newport | ||
| a921b3c | Many of the participants in my mass declutter experiment, however, reported that these feelings of discomfort faded after a week or two. Brooke described this experience as follows: The first few days were surprisingly hard. My addictive habits were revealed in striking clarity. Moments of waiting in line, moments between activities, moments of boredom, moments I ached to check in on my favorite people, moments I wanted an escape, moments I.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 8b66f7f | 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." | Cal Newport | ||
| 8f4907f | Lincoln's time alone with his thoughts played a crucial role in his ability to navigate a demanding wartime presidency. We can therefore say, with only mild hyperbole, that in a certain sense, solitude helped save the nation. | Cal Newport | ||
| b14cac6 | If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, "follow you passion" can be bad advice. It's more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great. The traits of control and mission are two good places to start." | Cal Newport | ||
| 0599db4 | The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts. | Cal Newport | ||
| a68b9bf | The second reason is that the subversive decision to pursue FI at a young age, which typically leads to radical lifestyle decisions, self-selects for individuals who are unusually intentional about how they live their lives. | Cal Newport | ||
| 12e27cf | the ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done. | Cal Newport | ||
| 6e132eb | The complex reality of the technologies that real companies leverage to get ahead emphasizes the absurdity of the now common idea that exposure to simplistic, consumer-facing products--especially in schools--somehow prepares people to succeed in a high-tech economy. Giving students iPads or allowing them to film homework assignments on YouTube prepares them for a high-tech economy about as much as playing with Hot Wheels would prepare them .. | Cal Newport | ||
| dc2fd55 | It took them seven years, but their efforts culminated in the 2017 release of Lead Yourself First. | Cal Newport | ||
| 7136bdb | The two core abilities just described depend on your ability to perform deep work. If you haven't mastered this foundational skill, you'll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level. | Cal Newport | ||
| 2d6ddb2 | They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, who has no real effect in the world. But craftsmanship must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. | Cal Newport | ||
| 1b334f2 | We eagerly signed up for what Silicon Valley was selling, but soon realized that in doing so we were accidently degrading our humanity. | Cal Newport | ||
| ba3237a | intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval. | Cal Newport | ||
| af2a303 | An interesting experience shared by some participants was that they eagerly returned to their optional technologies only to learn they had lost their taste for them. Here, for example, is how Kate described this experience to me: The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in--and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought . .. | Cal Newport | ||
| 82052a3 | Drukheid als Alibi voor Productiviteit: Bij afwezigheid van duidelijke maatstaven voor de productiviteit en de waarde in hun werk keren veel kenniswerkers terug naar een industrieel ijkpunt voor productiviteit: veel dingen heel zichtbaar doen. | Cal Newport | ||
| f344f27 | I am not asking Antonio a style question I could find searching Google for 10 minutes. | Cal Newport | ||
| f5a3845 | Harris argues, perhaps counterintuitively, that "the ability to be alone . . . is anything but a rejection of close bonds," and can instead affirm them. Calmly experiencing separation, he argues, builds your appreciation for interpersonal connections when they do occur." | Cal Newport | ||
| 4595eea | Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius | Cal Newport | ||
| 76ae35f | Depth-destroying behaviors such as immediate e-mail responses and an active social media presence are lauded, while avoidance of these trends generates suspicion. | Cal Newport | ||
| c8a81d5 | To concentrate requires what ART calls directed attention. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you'll struggle to concentrate. (For | Cal Newport | ||
| e024495 | The pianist Glenn Gould once proposed a mathematical formula for this cycle, telling a journalist: "I've always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need X number of hours alone. Now what that X represents I don't really know . . . but it's a substantial ratio." | Cal Newport | ||
| d10653d | I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least--and it is commonly more than that--sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. | Cal Newport | ||
| 9de95d4 | We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims... | Cal Newport | ||
| e55dfc1 | As the MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya expands in his modern interpretation of the Ethics, if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life?" | Cal Newport | ||
| a7ae4e1 | fully embrace Rogowski's closing advice: "Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work."...Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world." | Cal Newport | ||
| a202911 | Leah Pearlman, who was a product manager on the team that developed the "Like" button for Facebook (she was the author of the blog post announcing the feature in 2009), has become so wary of the havoc it causes that now, as a small business owner, she hires a social media manager to handle her Facebook account so she can avoid exposure to the service's manipulation of the human social drive. "Whether there's a notification or not, it doesn'.. | Cal Newport | ||
| f327997 | the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches. | Cal Newport | ||
| 02be30c | It is never too late to give up our prejudices. | Cal Newport | ||
| ca86594 | We had portable music before the iPod, most commonly in the form of the Sony Walkman and Discman (and their competitors), but these devices played only a restricted role in most people's lives--something you used to entertain yourself while exercising, or in the back seat of a car on a long family road trip. If you stood on a busy city street corner in the early 1990s, you would not see too many people sporting black foam Sony earphones on .. | Cal Newport | ||
| b6e4ac7 | Reason #1: Downtime Aids Insights Consider the following excerpt from a 2006 paper that appeared in the journal Science: The scientific literature has emphasized the benefits of conscious deliberation in decision making for hundreds of years... The question addressed here is whether this view is justified. We hypothesize that it is not. Lurking in this bland statement is a bold claim. The authors of this study, led by the Dutch psychologist.. | Cal Newport | ||
| f200aaf | minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good. | Cal Newport | ||
| 0a65b8b | This is why clutter is dangerous. It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life. | Cal Newport | ||
| df81494 | People have the need to put their hands on tools and to make things. We need this in order to feel whole." As Rogowski explains: "Long ago we learned to think by using our hands, not the other way around." As our species evolved, in other words, we did so as beings that experience and manipulate the world around us. We are orders of magnitude better at doing this than any other animal, and this is true due to complex structures that evolved.. | Cal Newport |