Effectively Deep Work is not bringing much if you already read Flow. This is just a complete book just to tell you that you need to correctly schedule your time to have "Flow/Deep" time and try as much as possible to remove distractions (News, social media, etc.) from your life.
It is even, for a part, totally self contradictory, where he claims that journalists can switch to deep work for 10 minutes at time. Because journalists are super humans not suffering from context switch where the coders are suffering from context switch if they do that.
So, this one is not on my recommended list.
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?
by stonecodegump on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:52AM
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There seem to be two Flow books by the same author :
Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Which one are you recommending?
not the GP, but start with Flow. Flow is the famous, classic one. Finding Flow is a later expansion/restatement -- it's good enough in its own right, but Flow is the lodestone
Read them one after the other, first Deep Work and then Flow. IF you are going to read both then I would recommend that order. Reading Flow first, then Deep Work doesn't have much to offer.
Those books actually re-fueled my love of programming.