Cal Newport
Autor/a de Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Sobre l'autor
Cal Newport is the author of How to Win at College and How to Become a Straight-A Student. He graduated from Dartmouth College and earned a Ph.D. from MIT. His writing has appeared in national publications, and he is the founder of Study Hacks, the Web's most popular student advice blog.
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Obres de Cal Newport
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (2012) 1,081 exemplars
How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While… (2006) 508 exemplars
How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students (2005) 232 exemplars
How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) (2010) 130 exemplars
Eine Welt ohne E-Mail: Wie man Arbeit im Zeitalter der Kommunikationsüberlastung neu gestaltet (2021) 3 exemplars
Obres associades
Surrounded by Idiots, It's Not Always Depression, Eat That Frog, Deep Work 4 Books Collection Set (2019) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Newport, Calvin C.
- Data de naixement
- 1982-06-23
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
- Educació
- Dartmouth College (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD|Computer Science) - Professions
- professor
- Agent
- Abkemeier, Laurie (DeFiore and Company)
- Biografia breu
- Cal Newport is a tenured professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic work, Newport writes about the intersection of these technologies with our personal and professional lives. Newport's ideas have been published in top print publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, but as a dedicate digital minimalist, Newport has never had a social media account.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 17
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 6,897
- Popularitat
- #3,546
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 176
- ISBN
- 118
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 5
I have not read any of Newport’s other books and my interest in this one was triggered by a feeling that I (and others) are drowning in email. I experience many of the problems that are described in the book — a high volume of daily emails, the perception I should reply quickly, even the need to manage the build-up of emails while on holiday. Perhaps in a post-pandemic/working-from-home world communication has become a new metric for productivity. What follows are my thoughts and reflections on this book.
Overall I feel there is a much shorter book within this one given the conclusions. I have noticed in many of the ‘self-help’ books I have read that they often provide excessive justification to their recommendations and conclusions using too many repetitive case studies and historical context. I didn’t need to learn about the introduction of stirrups into medieval Europe to understand why email was so widely adopted and so quickly. I don’t feel I needed to learn about the works of Claude Shannon to understand how information is managed within an office environment. As a result of these issues, it felt to me that this book does drag-on a bit and could have been much more focused — more on that below.
It is perhaps unfortunate that this book was released just as the world of work was changing due to the COVID pandemic and, as a result, feels a little dated with references to walking “down the hall” rather than sending emails. It reflects a world before widespread work from home and the consequent need for increased levels of email and messaging communication. The book certainly underlined my own belief that lots of communication is not the same thing as good communication.
The title of the book hints at a revolution but the conclusions; that work should be managed using dedicated project management tools rather than ad-hoc email, that Kanban boards and ‘scrum’ meetings are valuable and that we need to take time to get ‘real’ (aka deep) work done does not feel like a great revelation. I thought the final section of the book spent far too much time on the case studies of the benefits of Extreme Programming), sprints], administrative support to specialists, and other productive workflows.
I work in a ‘technology’ company so perhaps I am not actually the target audience here. Overall I was left disappointed — there was little in this book I could apply to change my life. And if I never hear the phrase “Hyperactive Hive Mind” again it will still be too soon!… (més)