J. David Stark

Tag: Cal Newport

  • Daily Gleanings: Avoiding Distraction (25 July 2019)

    Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller discuss how to avoid drifting along without accomplishing what you mean to. The discussion is directed most immediately at leaders. But as with many such things, there are direct lines of application in other contexts too (e.g., those of us who need to avoid drifting off course from completing…

  • Daily Gleanings (13 May 2019)

    Craig Keener starts discussing some of the problems with David Hume’s criticism of the miraculous. Cal Newport expands on an earlier reflection about the downsides of email. See also “Daily Gleanings: Email (10 May 2019).”

  • Daily Gleanings (7 May 2019)

    Doist provides a “complete guide to deep work.” The essay is mainly geared toward summarizing the advice of Cal Newport’s Deep Work with some additional insertions from Digital Minimalism. Both books are definitely worth reading. But Doist’s essay is a thorough crash course on the basics. Douglas Estes offers some helpful reflections on perfectionism, especially…

  • Daily Gleanings (30 April 2019)

    In episode 173 of the Minimalists’ podcast, the Minimalists discuss digital clutter with Cal Newport based on his new book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Portfolio, 2019). The discussion focuses a good deal on the negative impact of social media on our ability to focus on the work and relationships…

  • Daily Gleanings (23 April 2019)

    Cal Newport reflects on the possibility of deleterious effects of social media on religious practice. In part, he comments: Courage, reassurance, revelation: these require a quiet mind capable of apophatic insight. One of the unintentional consequences of innovating an algorithmically-optimized, always-present source of attention-snagging noise is that this quiet disappears. For more, see Cal’s original…

  • TopTracker

    TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X. The utility allows commenting on each session tracked (e.g., words written during that session). It also allows export via CSV, from where numbers can be crunched further in Excel to see how well progress is going. By default, TopTracker will…