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…once you put aside the revolutionary rhetoric surrounding all things Internet… you’ll soon realize that network tools are not exceptional…

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To master the art of deep work… you must take back control of your time and attention from the many diversions that attempt to steal them.

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…leverage artificial deadlines to help you systematically increase the level you can regularly achieve…

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There’s no one correct deep work ritual – the right fit depends on both the person and the type of project pursued.

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…it takes time to ease into a state of concentration…

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…regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work.

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…[the] potent mixture of job ambiguity and lack of metrics… allows behavior that can seem ridiculous… to thrive…

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…in the absence of metrics, most people fall back on what’s easiest.

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…without clear metrics… business behavior is vulnerable to unstable whim and shifting forces, and in this volatile scrum deep work has fared particularly poorly.

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…as knowledge work makes more complex demands of the labor force, it becomes harder to measure the value of an individual’s efforts.

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