This month’s book of the month is Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport.
Published in 2016, the book examines a problem that has become increasingly relevant in our professional lives. We have confused being busy with being productive.
Ten years after publishing Deep Work, Newport revisited this question in two essays published in March 2026.
The first was titled Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?
His second essay, Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps, Newport proposes three solutions.
First, measure meaningful output rather than activity.
Second, identify the actual bottlenecks preventing progress and apply technology to those constraints.
Third, deliberately separate deep work from shallow work.
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