Jake Schmitz

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“there’s one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“A good chief executive is essentially a hard-to-automate decision engine,”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“To ask a CEO to spend four hours thinking deeply about a single problem is a waste of what makes him or her valuable. It’s better to hire three smart subordinates to think deeply about the problem and then bring their solutions to the executive for a final decision.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World