📚 Book Club: Deep Work

📚 Book Club: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Join us in July to read and discuss Deep Work by Cal Newport.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

📘 2023 Book Club Selections

We have several upcoming book clubs. Our organizing team picked a wide range of books from different authors and spanning different genres. Join us for the books you are interested in discussing with us. Events will be posted on Meetup.

March 29 - The Light We Carry - Michelle Obama
May 31 - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane
July 26 - Deep Work - Cal Newport
September 27 - Foreverland - Heather Havrilesky
November 29 - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

If you are a Goodreads member, you can join the WWCode Portland Book Club group to stay in touch.

⏰ Agenda

6:00 - Welcome & Introductions
6:15 - General Discussion
7:30 - Closing Remarks

☎️ Join us in Zoom

TBA. The Zoom link will be sent via email 48 hours before the event.

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