Most workers today succumb to increasingly visible busyness.
Attention residue.
Four rules of deep work: work deeply (create rituals and routines), embrace boredom (train the ability to embrace boredom), quit social media (deep living and social media don't mix), drain the shallows (schedule time for deep work and spend as little time on shallow work as possible).
Deep time management: monastic, bimodal, rhythmic, journalistic.
Identify a small number of ambitious outcomes to pursue with your deep work hours.
Systematic idleness — when you work, work hard. When you're done, be done. Shutdown ritual.
Roosevelt dashes.
Productive meditation.
Structure every minute of the day. Autopilot problem.