Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
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Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#2This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#3This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#4This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?
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Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#5This is the first I've heard the term "deep work". Is this a more common term or something coined recently?
I feel like the hype around deep learning is slowly spreading to all "deep [Noun Phrase]" phrases.
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#6I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction. With self-restriction I mean blocking bookmarks (hindering you), not muting the phone (removing outside distractions). To me this self-improvement through shedding responsibility is scary. It's the same for fitness tracker that tell you when to do. (I have to admit there is some grey area in between though. Some habit forming can be beneficial ((e.g. allways riding the bike to work))
Personally I like small breaks between the tasks, but only if I change work contexts anyways. Do people really have a problem just riding the flow and not heading off to hackernews mid-task (honest question)?
edit: here I especially don't get the "pomodoro" technique where you are interrupted by your own alarm every 20 min.
Btw: noisy music works wonders for me sometimes (other times it's Bach I admit, but even than: loud Bach)
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#7These are tricks and "hacks," which are certainly useful. But they are only band-aid fixes. The external environment will continually evolve to find new ways to blast stimuli at you. The only real defense is training your mind.
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#8I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction. With self-restriction I mean blocking bookmarks (hindering you), not muting the phone (removing outside distractions). To me this self-improvement through shedding responsibility is scary. It's the same for fitness tracker that tell you when to do. (I have to admit there is some grey area in between though. Some habit forming can be beneficial ((e.g.…
It's a nice sentiment, but the products/sites/apps that aim to suck our attention are designed to exploit human weaknesses via dopamine release, variable reward etc. (see the book Hooked), making it exceedingly difficult and potentially expending your finite store of willpower on things you could much more easily avoid altogether.
Personally, cultivating the self-control to avoid checking facebook.com is less interesting to me than editing my hosts files to block it, and using my willpower for more rewarding tasks (exercise, learning piano etc.)
With that, I'm turning my block back on HN :)
Re: Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
#9I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction. With self-restriction I mean blocking bookmarks (hindering you), not muting the phone (removing outside distractions). To me this self-improvement through shedding responsibility is scary. It's the same for fitness tracker that tell you when to do. (I have to admit there is some grey area in between though. Some habit forming can be beneficial ((e.g.…
It's a nice sentiment, but the products/sites/apps that aim to suck our attention are designed to exploit human weaknesses via dopamine release, variable reward etc. (see the book Hooked), making it exceedingly difficult and potentially expending your finite store of willpower on things you could much more easily avoid altogether. Personally, cultivating the self-control to avoid checking facebook.com is less interes…
I kinda block my facebook newsfeed via CSS, but just to be able to access chat without having to read the feed if I don't want to (remaining just one click away from toggling it back on). (you can also do that my typing an invalid url and setting it as your facebook bookmark, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/asdfgwhatever )