Thanks to deep work, last year I only worked 3,7 hours a day 5 days a week (I didn’t count reading). In that time, I chaired my department with 9 different languages, taught, wrote a book and 3 articles, and did my translation work.
Deep work is a life-changer, my friends. Gone are the days where I graded or prepared classes on weekends or in the evenings. By the way, I always teach new classes because it bores me to repeat stuff. So it’s not like I’m skating on old material.
Highly, highly recommended. Once I finish out my term as Chair, I’ll drop it to 2 hours a day. That will be so cool.
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This is awesome! You posted 3-4 deep work exercises here. Are there any more? I’m also going to check out the book you recommended.
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Predictions about doing this kept being this “labour-saving devices” thing that technologists from the 20th century onward kept trying to sell while keeping increasingly irrelevant structures and habits in place.
And so whenever anyone does it independently, the people who ritualised that bullshit think of these optimisers as being mavericks.
Interestingly with the post-Rona environment you can see the kinds of people who want to optimise all of the wrong things a lot more clearly.
Today Taylorism lurks about doing time in motion studies in Amazon warehouses because everyone else is becoming wiser to the “labour theory of value” scams.
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