April 19, 2017

Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media — The Ezra Klein Show

[…] I’m a bit obsessed with Newport’s work right now, and especially his account of how the digital environment we inhabit is training us out of concentration and into distraction in ways that are bad for us, bad for our work, and ultimately bad for the world.

Halfway through the episode and I already deleted all social apps from my phone again — will use the websites for the next month.

/via coliver.


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