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Cal Newport

Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and a bestselling author recognized for exploring the intersections of technology, work, and culture. His influential books, including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Slow Productivity, have sold over two million copies, been translated into more than 40 languages, and shaped productivity discourse worldwide.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Cal Newport was born on June 23, 1982, in Houston, Texas, where he spent his early childhood before his family relocated to New Jersey near Princeton University when he was seven years old. This proximity to an academic environment foreshadowed his own scholarly trajectory. Newport attended Dartmouth College, where he demonstrated precocious literary ambition by signing his first book deal with Random House soon after his 21st birthday, while still an undergraduate. He went on to earn his PhD from MIT, specializing in distributed systems theory, before joining Georgetown University as a computer science professor, where he now holds the position of Full Professor and has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles cited more than 4,500 times in his academic career.

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Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it
-So Good They Can't Ignore You
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If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are
-Deep Work
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Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not
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Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on
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If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset ('what can the world offer me?') and instead adopt the craftsman mindset ('what can I offer the world?')
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Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things
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High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
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First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth
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Humans are not wired to be constantly wired
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The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive
-Deep Work

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"Cal Newport is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world"

Cal Newport official bio

"Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, as well as a New York Times bestselling author who writes for a broader audience about the intersection of technology and culture"

Penguin Random House

"Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and full time professor of computer science at Georgetown University"

Wikipedia

"Cal Newport is the author of eight books, including, most recently, Slow Productivity, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work"

Cal Newport official bio

"Cal Newport is a regular contributor on technology and culture topics to national publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Wired"

Penguin Random House

"Cal Newport started his Study Hacks blog in 2007 where he writes about how to perform productive, valuable and meaningful work in an increasingly distracted digital age"

Wikipedia

"Cal Newport’s titles have cumulatively sold well over 2,000,000 copies, have been published in more than 40 languages, and include multiple New York Times bestsellers"

Cal Newport official bio

"Cal Newport's most popular book is Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World"

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