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Tips for the often distracted developer
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Tips on how to eliminate distractions and tweak your environment & time towards less frustrating and more productive deep work.When distractions are everywhere focus become scarceOffice environments can easily turn into an attention battlefield. Emails, slack notifications, calendar alerts, meetings and casual hallway chats are just a few of the interruptions knowledge workers experience on a daily basis. Followed by frequent context switching and multitasking, these interruptions have negative implications on our brain’s performance. As described in the highly recommended read — Deep Work by Cal Newport, deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s an important skill that you can start sharpen once you identify and eliminate the origins of (...)

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Don’t Work Alone
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Excerpted from DEEP WORK by Cal NewportThe relationship between deep work and collaboration is tricky. It’s worth taking the time to untangle, however, because properly leveraging collaboration can increase the quality of deep work in your professional life.It’s helpful to start our discussion of this topic by taking a step back to consider what at first seems to be an unresolvable conflict. In Part 1 of this book I criticized Facebook for the #design of its new headquarters. In particular, I noted that the company’s goal to create the world’s largest open office space — a giant room that will reportedly hold twenty-​eight hundred workers — represents an absurd attack on concentration. Both intuition and a growing body of research underscore the reality that sharing a workspace with a large number (...)

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Quantifying and Visualizing “Deep Work” – Medium
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Un truc qui va peut-être nous aider...

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One of the best books I read in 2016 is Cal Newport’s “Deep Work”. In his book Cal explains that technology and various social practices have eroded our capacity to work without distractions and that we need to find ways to spend more time doing what he calls “Deep Work”: long stretches of time of uninterrupted full-focus work.

It turns out that, having a classic ADHD-y kind of personality, I have been deeply aware of this problem for many years and I have, over time, implemented various ways to cope with it. One of these is the habit of keeping track of when, where, and for how long I manage to immerse myself in “deep work”.