Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit
HBS Managing the Future of Work
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How Did You Get Interested in the Future of Work?
I got interested in it through the lens of general management, working with senior executives and companies. I was training to become a academic computer scientist. But going all the way back to my undergraduate days, I was writing public facing books that at first had nothing to do with my academic career. That led to a book called Deep Work where I was talking about the power of unbroken concentration.
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