Anyone who regularly succeeds in long deep work sessions is almost certainly someone skilled at deploying deep breaks to keep the session going.
Pomodoro and 4-hour people are both right — one hour of work plus a break that doesn't trigger attention residue. Half the work is the break.
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Robin SloanRobin Sloan on missing the Golden Gate in the fog — a short, atmospheric dispatch from a fog-shrouded drive through a California mall parking lot, searching for a particular Best Buy.
Note-taking is the closest thing we have to time travel. It's rebellion against the entropy of memory.
Perell's writing guide: capture within ten seconds, search by full-text, write from the leftovers. The system is downstream of the habit.
The ConversationAn argument that the four-year residential degree is being outgrown by the kinds of lives its graduates are now living — and what the curriculum, and the institution, should do about it.