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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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File under - Shallow writing that should have been a blogpost at best.
This book is mostly random commentary on other people's work and content. Almost nothing is original and no studies have been conducted by the author himself. The author's contribution is simply - this researcher found this, I do it this way and you should do it too.
The irony of this book is that the subject matter expert on deep work has produced such shallow content.
This book is mostly random commentary on other people's work and content. Almost nothing is original and no studies have been conducted by the author himself. The author's contribution is simply - this researcher found this, I do it this way and you should do it too.
The irony of this book is that the subject matter expert on deep work has produced such shallow content.
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Apr 30, 2017 10:28AM
Fun fact: this book started life as two blog posts. They did a better job of explaining the concepts than this book did by a county mile
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Corey, can you please link to the blog posts? That'd be really helpful.
Compilation of others work.
YES!!! I ended up skimming because I got more value out of the "in summary" paragraphs at the end. I felt like I was wading through quicksand trying to read this book. I understood the premise from the title and it didn't get much deeper than that.
Did any of you guys in the comments ever sat down for a long stretch of time and intensely focused on a hard task uninterrupted? Did you? If so, maybe, just maybe you could understand the content of this book.
Actually, the book seems like it’s meant for people who have never experienced that state, which is why the author had to pad it out with meandering passages, irrelevant anecdotes, and pop psychology.
While that might be true, that doesn’t constitute the only reason one should read this book. But if you actually tried doing what the author suggests, again, you’ll understand why this book is so important.
The book’s ideas are important. The book itself isn’t, because those ideas could have been delivered far more effectively and efficiently as short blog articles without all the unnecessary filler. The book is bad, not the ideas behind them.
Agreed. The book is very repetitive on the first 1/3rd on proving the importance and value of deep work.
I've read a $19.99 dollar book just like that: "It should have been a blog post" kind of book. Not sure if I'll buy this one now. Thanks for the warning!
Oh my God. Would it be better to spend a lot of time collecting all this material shared by the author yourself instead? The surveys that the author shares in the book are interesting and surely helps the reader learning something. I would like to know what a good book in the subject would look like. I don't know but looks like people don't read the whole book and simply get bored in the first half of the book. I was expecting to see critique that would share opposite thoughts to what the author shared in the book and not about being original or not.
