In order to have a deep work routine, you have to decide the following:

• Where you’ll work and for how long.
• How you’ll work once you start to work.
• How you’ll support your work.

High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

The New Law of Productivity states that the amount of knowledge you can create is limited by your ability to focus without distraction. This means that if you want to be productive, you need t...

Knowledge workers usually lack explicit indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable at work, so they turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing multiple tasks in a visible manner.

But doing lots of tasks is shallow work. P...

• Monastic: isolate yourself for long periods of time without distractions; no shallow work allowed
• Bimodal: reserve a few consecutive days when you will be working like a monastic (you need at least one day a week)

• Sending too much time on Social Media breaks up our time and reduces our ability to concentrate.
• Social Media take away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.
• If you want to eliminate the addictive pull ...

Our ability to focus deeply is a skill that can be learned and improved with practice.

There are some things we can do:

1. Set up a routine for work
2. Value Downtime
3. Eliminate Distractions, mainly social media