No one owes you a great career, it argues; you - Cal Newport

You cannot expect an app dreamed up in a dorm room, or among the Ping-Pong tables of a Silicon Valley incubator, to successfully replace the types of rich interactions to which we’ve painstakingly adapted over millennia. Our sociality is simply too complex to be outsourced to a social network or reduced to instant messages and emojis.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Any pursuit — be it physical or cognitive — that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.