thoughts on books by Cal Newport? From the book descriptions I've read it looks interesting, but he has written a lot of books which all sound kind of about the same thing. This gives me the "it could have been a blog post vibe". Thinking of getting the latest one:

thoughts on books by Cal Newport? From the book descriptions I've read it looks interesting, but he has written a lot of books which all sound kind of about the same thing. This gives me the "it could have been a blog post vibe". Thinking of getting the latest one:
https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Productivity-Accomplishment-Without-Burnout-ebook/dp/B0C7716FW1?sr=8-1

Tricks with polynomials and Riemann-Roch spaces. Breaking into the platonic realm to pillage forbidden abstractions. Starknet grantee.

Haven't read any of his books, but listened to him on Huberman a while back and he sounded legit on there

I read deep work. It was a mixed bag for me. Some of the advice he gave made sense while the other half of the advice seemed to hinder progress for me.

for example - he says that temporary dopamine detoxes don't help, things need to be cut permanently. I have personally found temporary detox useful.