Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

by Cal Newport

Finally, when cleaning your lists, look for projects that have become redundant or have been rendered obsolete by subsequent developments.

was reading John Gribbin’s monumental 2002 history, The Scientists, which presents capsule biographies of the great theorists and experimentalists

PRINCIPLE #2: WORK AT A NATURAL PACE Don’t rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in settings conducive to brilliance.