How a Productivity Expert Shifts From Work Mode to Non-Work Mode

You’ll work harder and your time after work will be more meaningful

Cal Newport
Forge
Published in
3 min readNov 11, 2020

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Asian woman working on her laptop in her living room.
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Most people approach their workday by trying to cross things off a task list in the small slivers of time that remain between attending meetings and reacting to emails and instant messages, often late into the evening. I prefer “time blocking”…

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Cal Newport
Forge
Writer for

Bestselling author of seven books, including Digital Minimalism and Deep Work. Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.