{"id":160,"date":"2020-05-23T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-05-23T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:45:18","slug":"deep-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/deep-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have just finished “Deep Work<\/a>” from Cal Newport. For a long time I have believed that multitasking is the best thing to be productive but with the years passing by I realised that like a computer, context switching<\/a> is very expensive on me. You can’t really concentrate in some demanding thing and then try to be on top of small things and interrupted by everybody. I am happy that I am not use social media but still at work I am easily distracted by people demands, emails, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I am pretty sure that It is not just me. Most people suffer this. And to be honest, I want to improve, I want to make a more meaningful job with my time. And life (like Winifred Gallagher<\/a>) Cal’s examples (himself and others) are really good. I liked quite a lot the one regarding Daniel Kilov<\/a> and how to memorize a deck of cards<\/a>. I think this is a good exercise to execute deep concentration in small chunks of time, that is actually the most probably outcome in (most people) normal day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can do it. But you need to work hard for it. The society, working environment and yourself are not going to make it easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think with the lockdown period, it is a good moment to put these techniques in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to pay less attention to the emails and slack. I dont have to be the quickest answering something… (that is so good for your ego….) I need to really prioritize my working hours and tasks to focus on with a time frame. I need to make myself accountable, stop blaming somebody else. And communicate, make my peers that I will focus in things I will not answer immediately (if you are my CTO, maybe not \ud83d\ude42 And as a manager, make my team members better: make them to take more ownership so they can deal with problems by themselves. And schedule times of the day to check emails and\/or attend meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I have done, it is to put a pink sticker close to my screen saying “ONE THING AT EACH TIME”. I did this before reading the book as a reminder from a speech at work of a brilliant guy in his last day. And he said he learned that sentence from our CTO. That got burned in my mind. I have used it mainly from troubleshooting. It has been a critical tool that I have applied successfully many times since then. But I can be applied to more things as “Deep Work” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All very nice words. Let’s make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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