Periodic Table of Frameworks · Time · Moment
Dw
2 parts
Deep work
Cal Newport
You want an hour that actually makes something. The problem is urgency has dressed itself as work. A block is deep or shallow. Protect the deep. Answer every ping and you will have a full calendar and an empty craft. Close the door and the hour is yours.
Deep
Hard to replicate.
Shallow
Easy to interrupt.
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A block is deep or shallow. Urgent is usually shallow.
Use this on a block. It answers: Where does the time go?
How this talks to the others
Pushes against
Eisenhower matrixThe matrix sorts by urgency. Deep work treats urgency as a trap. They disagree about the hour.
Leads into
The Slight EdgeThe important-not-urgent box is deep work, repeated until a life turns.
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