Cal Newport’s DEEP WORK is both interesting and deeply infuriating. He makes some excellent points, but also has some major blind spots.
I Read Cal Newport’s Deep Work So You Don’t Have To
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Review: Kindle Paperwhite
Back in August I got an unexpected bonus at my day job (for being awesome) and it has been my practice to, if at all possible, spend bonus money on fun things. So I spent half of it on an awful lot of custom-dyed wool/silk blend fiber to spin into yarn for a sweater and then I thought about what to spend the rest of it on. And then Amazon announced the...
Hello! I'm Natalie Luhrs.
I write about books, culture, disability, and whatever else strikes my fancy. I have many opinions.
I am a two-time Hugo Award finalist, in 2017 for Best Fan Writer and in 2021 for my essay “George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun, Or: The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony (Rageblog Edition)” in the Best Related Work category.
Please do not offer me medical advice. I have something like 10 doctors and it’s already pretty challenging to keep up with what they want me to do. I do not have the bandwidth to process any advice that doesn’t come from one of my doctors, no matter how well meant the advice may be. Thank you!
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