Cal Newport

Cal Newport is an American computer scientist and nonfiction writer. His work focuses on attention, technology, and the conditions required for sustained intellectual effort in workplaces designed around interruption.

Deep Work names a familiar but increasingly scarce mode of effort: sustained concentration on a demanding task without switching to messages, feeds, meetings, or easy administrative work. Cal Newport argues that this ability produces better results and can be trained rather than merely wished for.

Start with Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Cal Newport argues that sustained concentration is becoming rarer at the same time that difficult, distraction-free work is becoming more valuable.