locus of control theory, a subfield of personality psychology that argues that motivation is closely connected to whether people feel like they have … - Cal Newport

But part of what makes social media insidious is that the companies that profit from your attention have succeeded with a masterful marketing coup: convincing our culture that if you don’t use their products you might miss out.

I argue that his approach to batching helps explain this paradox. In particular, by consolidating his work into intense and uninterrupted pulses, he’s leveraging the following law of productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.