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Re:Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage? by wry_discontent on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:58PM (#27637687)
I've had a copy of this book for so long, but it reeks to me of something that should be a blog post I can read in 5 minutes, and so I've never been able to muster the interest to crack it open.

How seriously would you recommend it?

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Re:Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage? by wheelinsupial on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:20PM (#27637839)
I guess you're lucky that Cal Newport starts with blog posts and turns them into books later. This post seems to be the one that introduced deep work.

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers...

"Last week I introduced the deep work philosophy" in this blog post links to the one above: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/27/some-notes-on-dee...

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Re:Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage? by albertshin on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:24PM (#27637860)
I find many "productivity" books tend be easily summarizable... but reading the book is really to drill the concept in your head so that you're conscious of the tips/advice in your day to day.

Plus, if you spread out the reading over a few days/weeks, you can apply what you've learned throughout the day as you read along.

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Re:Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage? by 100011_100001 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:57AM (#27676723)
It could be a blog post. Hell I can even summarize it with a few sentences.

Work on one thing without distractions for big blocks of time, 1-4 hours. You will make great progress by concentrating on one thing at a time.

....there you have it

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