Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. - Cal Newport

Step 1: Decide What Capital Market You’re In For the sake of clarity, I will introduce some new terminology. When you are acquiring career capital in a field, you can imagine that you are acquiring this capital in a specific type of career capital market. There are two types of these markets: winner-take-all and auction. In a winner-take-all market, there is only one type of career capital available, and lots of different people competing for it.

I’m usually facing someone who wants to send twenty-nine emails to fix a problem.” His solution is simpler: “Go talk to them.

Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.