Work Is Designed To Maximize Relevance, Not Productivity

The lie at the heart of it all.

.Cal Newport, who is probably best known for his ideas around “deep work” and I believe may now work for The New York Times, has a good new article (it’s basically just an interview) about what digital work has done to us. It’s all pretty good, although some aspects of it probably wouldn’t make sense to a guy that runs a carpeting business in Topeka, bu…