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DEEP WORK - Commented Book

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CHAPTER

I Am Not Busy, I Am the Laziest, Ambitious Person I Know

Tim Crider, a New York Times cartoonist and writer, wrote that he was too busy to get work done. He decided to retreat from the world of busyness in an undisclosed location. Idleness is paradoxically necessary to getting any work done, says Crider. The more time you can spend immersed in shallow work, the more it gets accomplished.

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