If you’re not focusing on becoming so good they can’t ignore you, you’re going to be left behind. - Cal Newport

Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.

for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.

As a 2018 article from the MIT Sloan Management Review explains: “The ‘keep everybody busy’ theory remains alive and well . . . in knowledge work.”39 (The article elaborates that the manufacturing sector, by contrast, figured out in the 1980s that relentless busyness was not an optimal way to run things.)