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Context Upon completing Why We Sleep: Unlocking The Power of Sleep and Dreams  by Matthew Walker, I promptly picked up a new book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Work in a Distracted World  by Cal Newport.  Overall, the book positively impacted me in 2 ways, yet at the same time I had quite a bit of "problems" with between his logical gaps and boasting of accomplishments or anecdotal evidence to his methods. Before I continue, let's quote the book's definition of Deep Work - "Professional activities performed in a state of distraction free concentration that push your cognitive ability to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skills, and are hard to replicate"  Its definition is highly similar to that of flow (link to wikipedia) , but slightly more specific.  Let's focus on the goodies first.  How Did The Book Positively Impact Me For one , the book drilled deep in why Deep Work is extremely hard in the modern world. The ...

What is "Audio Only Media" I came up with it on the fly and too lazy to research if there's a proper term. What I mean is media we obtain that relies 100% on listening and nothing else. The specific examples I'm talking about would be - Podcast and Audio Book. Maybe radio. However, other media can be consumed in this form if you forego the visual aspects (listening to a youtube video or w.e show on without watching).  As a disclaimer, I only started to become an avid audio book listener thanks to my new book reading habit - I do both, traditional and audio, or particularly, Audible (man Bezos' everywhere). But today I want to focus on the topic of just listening to something, not the value of reading a book. Podcast vs audio book is discussion for another time akin to reading a book vs reddit / online news articles. Today - only audio vs visual.  Changed your life? Really?  It may be a bit of an exaggeration by the degree which it has, but it has opene...