On Cal Newport’s Deep Work

Introduction

A few months ago, a reader had written asking how to integrate my own writings with those of Cal Newport’s. I’d read Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You when I was originally introduced by Mikes Schechter and Vardy. That book was and is excellent, describing how passion is not found so much as it is developed in time.

More recently, Newport had been writing on his blog in the vein of his new book, Deep Work: Rules for Success in a Distracted World. Here, Newport focuses on i...