Deep Work: How to Improve Your Knowledge Work

The idea that people need to be able to focus and give their attention to their work for an extended period of time is one of the big things I got out of Deep Work. At this point, it's been a few years since he wrote the book; are we getting better? Not really. The pandemic was going to help with this effort because my argument was shifting haphazardly to remote work makes all of the things that are already bad about the way we do knowledge work activities worse. Instead, people threw up their hands and said, everything's terrible right now.