Month: June 2024

Job applications, cars and bikes

VW Taigo … fun to drive for four hours at least

This has been something of a tricky week, Monday especially.

But today I got to drive a new car for four hours while mine was being fixed (for the second time in a week), a kind man fixed my bike wheel, and I got the good news that I wasn’t being offered a new job.

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Book review: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Cal Newport is one of my favourite authors. An American non-fiction author and full professor of computer science at Georgetown University, Newport has written some of my favourite deeply insightful books:

  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016),
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (2019),
  • A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload (2021)

and now this book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout (2024).

It took me a little longer to read than I had meant as I was made redundant during the first half of the book and I’ve been focused on my work situation. But I finished reading it this afternoon and I wanted to share my initial thoughts.

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