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I’ve gone from amused/apathetic to deep work, to actively hostile to the idea. It’s a performative part of hustle theater. Nobody using the phrase “deep work” appears to have actually done work comparable to what they claim to aspire to.
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The stuff we’re supposed to think deep work is like — soaring leaps of Great Work production by Great Men, on the order of Einstein or Mozart — actually happens via very different patterns of genetics/context/resources/work patterns/play patterns/recovery patterns.
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Ditto Waldenponding. “Social media detox,” etc etc. Yeah, just the “good cop” side of performative hustle theater. Social media addiction isn’t the problem, your solution isn’t a solution. Just an aestheticized, intellectualized version of “a bad work an blames his tools”
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This sounds harsh, but a lot of bullshit analysis and theatrical intervention into misframed non-problems is just ordinary, mediocre people refusing to question the conceit that the only thing standing between them and Greatness is some environmental factor.
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Yeah, that's all I've ever taken the term to mean. Though I can also see why scheduling deep work every day might not be optimal. The need for uninterrupted blocks comes and goes, and pretending you're doing deep work just because your phone is off is comical.
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Every cult I’ve ever seen has people at the core convinced they’re saying some very obvious simple thing nobody should have issues and they’re genuinely puzzled by hostility 🤣 Once knew a cult whose top leaders said, “all this is about is some breathing exercises”
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