Folks who might have #ADHD or simply having difficulties to #DeepWork, how do you manage to do it?
I could get into deep work state, however the "spin up" time is often longer than I'd like. Sometimes over half of a two hour time block would be spin up and by the time I'm in the zone it's already time to take a break.
Any tips?
Supposed to be on a paper-writing bootcamp this week, first day today and I have 6 separate online meetings about 6 different projects lined up...
Maybe tomorrow.
Time for #DeepWork is hard to find...
The Art of Not Reading: Intellectual Discipline in the Age of Information Overload
In my latest article I explore the intellectual discipline of selective reading—why indiscriminate consumption dilutes critical thinking, and how curating our intellectual intake leads to deeper comprehension and independent thought.
#SelectiveReading #InformationOverload #CriticalThinking #DeepWork #IntellectualDiscipline #KnowledgeManagement #LifelongLearning #ProductivityTips
For 20+ years, GTD has helped me balance work, life, and deeper goals—something Newport's focus on only "deep" tasks overlooks.
Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals, discusses embracing limitations and making intentional choices. He and Allen bring practicality to productivity. Newport’s approach is great for those who can control every minute—but most of us don’t have that luxury. 
#Productivity #GTD #OliverBurkeman #DeepWork #DavidAllen #CalNewport
Hellllooooo! I didn’t have time to say good morning today, which is most unlike me. I got up at 9.35 and had to pop into town to get some bits for dinner and be back and breakfasted ready to start a #DeepWork session at 10.30. I sometimes review academic papers for a site called The Mental Elf, the aim is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the paper and highlight the practice implications for busy health professionals. It’s just a wonderful paper, a collaborative review with service users and academics of research into the subjective lived experience of depression. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I’m halfway through my review, with the aim of finishing it in a second 2 hour deep work session this afternoon. So basically that’s my day taken care of! That’s me, always with the side projects… How’s your weekend shaping up?
Well, I went into that training with low expectations as it was the same trainer as the dire training on Monday, but it was actually really good! I learned a lot about mixed methods research and I now have a list of questions for supervision tomorrow. I have so many things to raise with my supervisor… I feel like I’ll need to squeeze every drop of input out of my hour! Lunch break with Tom now and then some #DeepWork on my review protocol #PhD #PhDChat
The #DeepWork reflection session was really good. It gave me lots of food for thought about what my priorities should be over the next months.
I’m attending a special reflective journaling session with my #DeepWork platform in an hour. This will be a real treat, 1 hr 15 mins of guided reflection.
We had an emoji dog breed quiz in my #DeepWork session recharge break. There was one that started with the 
emoji, I was convinced it was shih tzu but it turned out to be poodle. Once I confessed my error, loads of other people said they’d thought the same, only everyone except me was too polite to type it in the chat
Tom interrupted my #DeepWork session to ask me whether I had “a range of notes”. I honestly had no idea what he was talking about, I was thinking, my work notes? Post-it notes? Sure, I have a range of colours! Transpired he meant the cash I drew this morning. He was baffled that I didn’t immediately know he meant money.
I’m starting to get more of a feel for this paper. I went to a 9.30am #DeepWork morning kick start session and we were a group of just three, a masters student, a PhD student, and me. We agreed that academics must not be early risers 
Someone in the group introduced us to Goblin Tools, which helps you break tasks down into more manageable portions, so I’ve been playing with that a bit. I’ve been in a silent #DeepWork drop in, but now I’m going to a facilitated session where we set goals for the next two hours of focus
In my #DeepWork session today we were asked to specify our favourite genre of music. What a monstrous question! Like being asked to choose between my children
I woken up with a horrible sinus headache, it’s responded a bit to painkillers and caffeine but I feel dopey and slow. I walked into town but I couldn’t muster up the energy for my usual power walk. I’ve got three #DeepWork sessions pencilled in for today to finish this article. I nearly said “try to finish this article”, but I’m not going try, I’m going to do. So there! Anyone feeling perkier than me this Thursday?
Well, I made some significant progress on my article in this morning’s #DeepWork flight… hoping that I can whip it into shape by the end of Thursday, which is my next working day. I hope my manager likes my acronym!
Right! After a nice lunch I am about to go into an afternoon #DeepWork session. I’m really hoping to finish a first draft of my current article by the end of the day. See you on the other side!
After a productive afternoon of #DeepWork I’ve called it a day and I’m chilling out before my #breathwork session in an hour. Breath work is one of the things (along with exercise, meditation and journaling) that I try to do regularly to stay well despite having #bipolar disorder. I’m bound to relapse eventually - that’s just being realistic - but I want to put it off for as long as I can
Oh dear, not doing very well on my early morning thing today. I woke up ages before my alarm, thought I’d get up, cleaned my teeth, meditated, then caved and went back to bed. In other words, I wimped out, gah. Just about to start work which involves sorting through a brand new to do list I received on Friday. I’ll be engaging in #DeepWork sessions as usual, love it. Have a great Monday everyone!
OK so I said I wasn’t going to apply for the third PhD studentship I saw but I just love the topic so I changed my mind back to applying. I’ve just spent two hours of #DeepWork writing up a proposal as to how I would research the topic and although I say so myself, I think I’ve done a damn fine job. I really hope I get an interview!
Decided that I am going to do a #DeepWork session from 6-8pm this evening to finish off my PhD application paperwork. I was meant to do it at the weekend but without structure and accountability I floundered around instead. Doing it in a flock will keep me focused
Does anyone have an easy way to make RSS feeds from Twitter accounts? Rss.app will do it, but they are proprietary links which work in regular RSS readers but only as long as you pay them $8/month or something.
Hoping not to go the command-line route :)
Want to follow set of valuable accounts that won't be on Mastodon anytime soon like https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih
Separate from the current insanity there are #focus and #intention benefits from #RSS readers.
cc @davew
