Deep Work and Agents

I really like the ideas in Deep Work. I've felt the difference between deep and shallow work and have, many times, tried to set goals to hit some amount of weekly deep work. The nature of work, especially in tech, has changed a lot this year and I noticed that depth doesn't come as naturally as it once did.For those who've not read Cal Newport's book the short of it is there is shallow and deep work. Shallow work is the work you need to attend but often feels more like administration than work. Deep work is, well, deep. You're in a state free of distraction and pushing your capabilities towards their limit. Newport argues that deep work is scarce and spending time there is both personally and professionally rewarding.Before we all had agents to contend with, deep work was typically achieved by blocking out some time in your calendar, picking a single task and concentrating on it for some meaningful length of time. The task chosen was as important as the distraction free environment,…

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