Good argument that giving more hours to one task will increase its quality and value as opposed to dividing all that time between many tasks with lower quality and value.
Phenomenal video. As other commentators have noticed, your audio could be better and I think that would increase your views by a lot. Your ideas need to be heard! 1 - the sm7b is a solid mic, but very sensitive to proximity. A lot of the volume inconsistency is proximity effect (moving on and off the mic). 2 - if you are not already using an inline mic preamp such as a cloudlifter, that might be something to try. 3 - in post, try using a hard limiter to bring the level up. Thank you for your work. I am a huge fan and Deep Work is one of my favorite books.
It's quite hilarious why these informative videos are watched less and all those shitty content has views in millions, like why people don't want to progress, it's been 2 years listening to cal and the amount of things i have learnt from him over the years is just immense, anyways good to be better than those million people !!
This is personally very challenging in a good way. I’m a huge proponent of your philosophy and still find myself drawn to doing too many things and spreading my efforts too wide. Thanks for sharing these thoughts… it’s caused me to pause and consider a more effective way to be productive and reengineer our team’s work.
Yep that was how I felt at my last job. There were just many things to do, so many emails and meetings, and I was so overwhelmed I just couldn’t produce anything great. I quit a few months ago and am working at a job that makes sure you’re not overloaded with stuff and tracks your achievements and makes quarterly goals very important.
My first job as a software engineer was like that. Too much project management, meetings, email. 95% communication about the work, 4.8% tedious garbage sifting, and 0.2% interesting, engaging work.
thank you, i was stuck in such a job for many years, i was just super busy with zero value generated. finally i was able to quit, realised my mistake after reading your book deep work. thank you so much. the learning has just begun now 😊, out of regret phase now.
Great summary!!! I agree it is not linear. If you dedicate 20hs to something on the week, it´s not the same value that if you dedicate 5hs to 4 things. That thing that you dedicate 20hs, you create more value than multipling by 4 the other 4 things you would do.
This reminds me of the quote that goes somewhat like: "I do not fear the man who has practiced 10.000 kicks once, but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10.000 times."
I heard you explain “overhead” several times, but this time I really understood it. With 15 projects, the amount of overhead is 15 times as high as with one project, so the relative productivity time is reduced. Hm. Thank you for giving me something to think about.
It’s the opposite for me. I find I thrive in having several projects going at once. Is one thing not going well? Work on the on other thing for an hour and come back to it. It makes me less anxious as there is some progress being made. I think people who complain about this problem are disorganized and lack the capability to starting and doing the work. Turning one's brain on before work (deep thinking, planning, organizing, to-dos, workflow) and turning it off during work (starting, flowing) is essential for productivity.
This guy didn’t say multiple projects are bad. They said that the return of value (output) for more different inputs decreases in relation to the number of inputs. So having 2 projects isn’t bad, not even having 20 projects is not bad. But the rate of return for each I out decreases non-linearly
Hello! This was a really great clip. Do you have a video for project managers on how best to set up for their coworkers to thrive? I want to help others be able to time block and work less and be to get better at the skill that makes them so valuable, but am still unsure how to structure that environment. Thanks!
Great video. Struggling with this right now in the business world. Building a startup, super high tech in the energy sector. In the capital raising stage and cannot spend much on paying our team. Thus side hustles have taken over my attention. I now feel myself spread between 3 projects, one that is my own that creates existential value to the world, but nominal value for myself financially. The other two projects are in the health sector which i love, but my brain is literally in a feedback loop attempting to manage 3 things, while also maintaining my fitness journey, taking care of my home and spending time with my fiance.
most of the jobs in corporate can't be done like this. because they are repetitive in nature and tagged to a KPI. Whereever there is a KPI metric in place, that ain't a creative job. 1. marketing is not a creative job\ 2. branding is not a creative job unless you try out something very less tried and it works. 3. sales is not a creative job. 4. software dev jobs are not creative if you are tagged with the role sde, product manager, front end dev or back end dev. 5. research dev jobs in tech r creative jobs. only small percentage of people, probably 5% people do creative jobs, and according to J. Peterson the chances of success are .001%. but you dont have to be scared, success is always there, people 99% of the times don't even try their hand on iteration based games.
