Slow Productivity

Issue 220: Reflections on the new Cal Newport book

There are a handful of authors I can think of who've made a transformative impact in how I approach the professional craft, and that's Cal Newport, the Computer Scientist professor at Georgetown who wrote titles such as, So good they can't ignore you, and Deep Work.

In a conversation with James Hunter, Lead Designer on the AI team at Atlassian, he mentio…