Deep Work on the Rise
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Deep Work on the Rise
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#2On a slightly unrelated note: does anyone have experience with Readng itself? It seems to position itself as an alternative to Goodreads, but I'm curious as to what the major selling point is, so to speak, besides owning your data, and what other benefits it may have?
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#3On a slightly unrelated note: does anyone have experience with Readng itself? It seems to position itself as an alternative to Goodreads, but I'm curious as to what the major selling point is, so to speak, besides owning your data, and what other benefits it may have?
I use it as a lightweight alternative to Goodreads, to be honest there is nothing special.
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#4Unfortunately, with a 9-month old roaming the apartment, I haven't been able to enter a 'Deep Work' state in months.
Child-care isn't an option due to COVID, and since I work freelance while my wife has a full-time job, I've been the de facto Mr. Mom, squeezing in work whenever I have a free 10-30-minute block—which isn't often.
By the time he goes to bed, I'm fried from taking care of him all day, and entering into a productive 'deep work'-state is nigh impossible.
Advice to anyone considering having kids: try to live near a parent, and/or plan for childcare if you wish to get 'deep work' done. For caring for a child is, itself, 'deep work'.
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#5Unfortunately, with a 9-month old roaming the apartment, I haven't been able to enter a 'Deep Work' state in months. Child-care isn't an option due to COVID, and since I work freelance while my wife has a full-time job, I've been the de facto Mr. Mom, squeezing in work whenever I have a free 10-30-minute block—which isn't often. By the time he goes to bed, I'm fried from taking care of him all day, and entering into…
The only way I could get anything like deep work (and it was a much shallower version still) was to get up before the kids.
I used to be a big time night owl, with hours of productive coding possible after 11PM. After kids, that was impossible as you described. Now, I get up at 5:30-6:00 without an alarm after many years of dragging myself through the day after setting an alarm.
I found it much easier to drag myself through dinner, bath, and bedtime reading and then go to bed myself than to do all that and then try to do my computer work.
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#6Unfortunately, with a 9-month old roaming the apartment, I haven't been able to enter a 'Deep Work' state in months. Child-care isn't an option due to COVID, and since I work freelance while my wife has a full-time job, I've been the de facto Mr. Mom, squeezing in work whenever I have a free 10-30-minute block—which isn't often. By the time he goes to bed, I'm fried from taking care of him all day, and entering into…
Cal Newport thanks about this situation in his podcast. The short version is: when you're responsible for taking care of a child, that is your main work.
In most scenarios I've heard on his podcast, there's some scheduling between the parents around who's working and who's taking care of the child when. If you're full-time on kid duty, you don't do deep work.
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#7Unfortunately, with a 9-month old roaming the apartment, I haven't been able to enter a 'Deep Work' state in months. Child-care isn't an option due to COVID, and since I work freelance while my wife has a full-time job, I've been the de facto Mr. Mom, squeezing in work whenever I have a free 10-30-minute block—which isn't often. By the time he goes to bed, I'm fried from taking care of him all day, and entering into…
Cal Newport thanks about this situation in his podcast. The short version is: when you're responsible for taking care of a child, that is your main work. In most scenarios I've heard on his podcast, there's some scheduling between the parents around who's working and who's taking care of the child when. If you're full-time on kid duty, you don't do deep work.
Yep. I'm resigned to this fate for now, and apart from the occasional ventings about the day-to-day stressors (such as this very post ;), can't really complain.
It's a good thing he's cute!
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#9I might be weird, but every time I hear about productivity, it annoys me.
People cannot be labeled as productive. A company, a process, a group, but not individuals.
This paranoia about procrastination and laziness has an awful impact on how we live.
Motivation is complicated. Please watch the rsa animate video on motivation.
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#10The title of this is a pun, and so winds up not being a great title. But the phenomenon described is definitely real. This is expected practise in fields like music. Every serious musician has figured out the right daily rhythms for their practise to be most effective, and has the times of day at which they do technique, repertoire, improvisation, etc. It really does make a difference.