Deep Work
Like many people living in the 21st Century I find I can become easily distracted by what Cal Newport calls 'shallow work'. This is the daily management of competing distractions: checking your email inbox, posting on social media, catch-up meetings and so on. Newport's argument isn't that there is anything fundamentally wrong with these things - or that in 2017 it is practical or desirable to live without them - but instead that we allow shallow work to dominate our attentio