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We begin the meat of our re-read of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow with Chapter 1, Happiness. The Chapter opens by focusing on the definition of happiness or the lack of a... Read More
I have read and quoted parts of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow over the last ten years. It has been on my list to read cover to cover for several years. My... Read More
Newport concludes Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World with a reminder that working deeply is a skill for getting important stuff done. We can learn and... Read More
Today we tackle Rule #4 of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. The chapter’s title is Drain the Shallows. During both my reads... Read More
Rule #3 of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, asks us to quit social media, sort of. Deep work requires space to think without distraction. To... Read More
Why write Mastering Work Intake? Because Jeremy Willets and Tom Cagley decided maybe things could be different. That just chanting “stop starting and stop finishing” wasn’t enough. Our book provides... Read More
