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Deep Work (Rule #1: Work Deeply (wisely choose your strategy (manastic…

- - - - make deep work a habit
      - habits/environment should destroy distractions and desires that stop you from working deeply, without using too much willpower
  - - - consequently cut out everything shallow from your schedule
      - eliminates everything that creates shallow work (e.g. social media accounts)
    - - divide your time
        
        manastic time for deep work
        
        shallow time for the rest
    - - set specific starting time of deep work sections for each day
    - - fit deep work into your schedule wherever possible
      - experience and confidence (concerning own work) as prerequisite
  - - - metrics (eg words/minute)
      - rules
  - - - identify a small set of highly ambitious outcomes to expect from (limited) hours of deep work
        
        set specific, ambitious goald and define expected benefits (from achieving those goals)
    - - lag measures
        
        directly measure thing you want to be changed
        
        measured only ofterwards, where measures/improvements have already been taken
      - lead measures
        
        measure things that (potentially) influence/drive success of lag measures
    - - dashboard for visualizing success
        
        easily accessable for each stakeholder
    - - regulary check/review, argument on good/bad factors and plan to improve
  - - - especially from shallow work
      - some decisions are better done sub-consciously
      - application: don't do/thing of anything work-related when you're out of office
      - recharge energy needed to work deeply
        
        get in a mode where you don't actively direct your attention
        
        implementation
        
        no email, etc
        
        strict shutdown ritual
        
        eg review projects/tasks, note open tasks for next day
        
        paper: "Consider it done"
- - - - stay completely offline and focussed until that time
        
        idea is not to reduce time spent online, but to train resistance and reduce task swithcing
  - - - be aware of distractions and looping
        
        actively redirect your attention
      - structure your deep thinking
- - - - hyper-connectiveness is not necessary
  - - - adopt a tool only if positive impact on these factors is higher than negative impacts
      - opposite: selection of each tool with "any benefit"
    - - list 2/3 goals for each personal and professional life (high-level)
        
        define 2 activities to accomplish for each (low-level)
        
        consider list of network tools and decide on impact on activities/goals
- - - - strategies
        
        schedule every minute of your day
        
        prevents you from doing shallow work on autopilot/losing sense of time when doing shallow work
        
        create time blocks for tasks (min. 30 minutes)
        
        re-write it during the day
        
        causes
        
        wrong estimation
        
        unexpected insights/tasks
        
        extra block for open tasks that were underestimated
        
        quantify the depth of every activity of the day
        
        metric: how long will it take (in months) to train a smart college graduate with no special skills to complete this task?
        
        ask your boss (or yourself) for a shallow work budget
        
        how much (% of my) time should I spend on shallow work?
        
        finish your work by 5:30
        
        "fixed schedule productivity"
        
        become hard to reach
        
        make people who send you e-mails do more work
        
        communicate your response filter
        
        do more work when you send or reply to e-mails
        
        no ping-pong of messagees, but think about how to make the overall conversation most efficient
        
        e.g. proactively take away questions
        
        "process-oriented"
        
        create process for specific discussion and communicate it
        
        reduces number of incoming e-mails
        
        don't respond
        
        if
        
        it's not interesting
        
        nothing really (good or bad) happens if your respond/don't respond
        
        let small bad things happen as tradeoff for the big good things
- - - - social media, online comminucation
    - - because of digitalisation
        
        learning becomes more important
        
        high quality becomes more important
        
        only the best survives
        
        customers can switch and compare more easily
    - - quickly master hard things
        
        deep work lets you develop new skills/learn new things more quickly (neuroscience)
      - produce at an elite level
        
        example: Adam Grant (professor)
      - books
        
        race against the machine
        
        average is over