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Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
These forces are disrupting how we interact with our colleagues and creating new demands to restructure organizations to become more competitive.
Paul Leonardi • The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
En route to complete a digital task, how likely is it that your attention gets hijacked? For example, say you jump to YouTube to get a URL for your own video; on the way, you come across a menu of 8 videos, and you find yourself watching one, forgetting why you originally showed up. The medium is high in “distractibility.” This is why paper OS’s ar
... See moreYou 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.