Colin

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers and when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“There exists a myth that it’s hard to say no, whether to someone else or to your own ambition. The reality is that saying no isn’t so bad if you have hard evidence that it’s the only reasonable answer.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“This is what ultimately matters: where you end up, not the speed at which you get there, or the number of people you impress with your jittery busyness along the way.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout