Michal Pixels's Key Ideas from Deep Work
by Cal Newport

I've invested significant effort to minimize the shallow in my life while making sure I get the most out of the time this frees up.

Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output. 

As intelligent machines improve, and the gap between machine and human abilities shrinks, employers are becoming increasingly likely to hire “new machines" instead of “new people“

Though an increasing number of people will lose in this new economy as their skill becomes automatable or easily outsourced, there are others who will not only survive, but thrive—becoming more valued (and therefore more rewarded) than before.