Cal-Newport

Daily Gleanings from Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller about how to avoid drifting through life and from Cal Newport about avoiding digital distraction.

Daily Gleanings about Hume’s critique of miracles and the downsides of email.

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. ...

Gleanings about focus, distraction, social media, and essentialism.

Gleanings about social media and religion, as well as newly digitized Greek New Testament manuscripts.

TopTracker provides a straight-forward, free time tracking utility that works on both Windows and OS X.

Digital devices and media can make focus difficult. Freedom provides helpful of “training wheels” to foster better focus amid such distractions.

Valerie Bisharat shares some helpful reflections on “how to avoid focus-stealing traps.”

Michael Hyatt has a helpful interview with Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Grand Central, 2016). According to Newport, Focus is now the lifeblood of this economy. Why? Because focus is rare and distraction abundant. As Hyatt comments, ...