Author

Cal Newport

We've read and reviewed Cal Newport's self help and business book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.

Cover of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

Cal Newport argues that the ability to focus without distraction on a hard problem, what he calls deep work, is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and then hands you a practical system for protecting it. It's a sharp, slightly stern manifesto against the shallow busyness of modern work.