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… - Cal Newport

Our sociality is simply too complex to be outsourced to a social network or reduced to instant messages and emojis.

I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.