ambition 3
- Remarkable careers take a remarkably large amount of training.
- Doing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived.
Cal Newport
Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity. He has written the blog Study Hacks since 2007 and contributes to The New Yorker.
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What Cal Newport says most about
innovation 2
- The personal computer made countless individual tasks easier without delivering the productivity gains everyone expected, and AI may go the same way.
- The problem the smartphone was invented to solve is now better solved by other devices, so its place in daily life rests on habit rather than necessity.
mathematics 2
- Almost every recent AI breakthrough has been in code and mathematics, the two domains with highly structured languages and huge specialised training sets.
- Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.
social media 2
- The precautionary principle now applies to children and phones: little is lost by restricting access and much is likely gained.
- Researchers are no longer divided about whether smartphones and social media are bad for children.