David (@hellodavidryan)
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David (@hellodavidryan)
offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits.
Jason Fried • Remote
You should protect your team’s “deep work” at all costs. Traditional work environments optimize for rapid-fire communication. Meetings, Slack, text messages, and stand-ups are examples. Levels thinks these defaults are disastrous and reduce the amount of “deep work” its team can do. It does everything possible to protect this time.
readthegeneralist.com • Levels: A Cultural Anomaly | the Generalist
Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that I mig... See more