Related to this: there are several points in the article where you mention (but don’t link) a book that explains a concept in more detail. (i.e. “Deep Work.”)
And on one hand you have sort of summarized the core point of Deep Work… but part of the reason books like Deep Work or Peak are useful is because they provide lots of context and anecdotes and inspiring speeches that cause you to take the ideas seriously.
So another update I think’d be useful here is for each section to directly link to the places that explain things in more detail, with notes like “if you’d like to really act on this, here’s an easy next step you can take right now.”
Great points. Regarding the lack of links, I was thinking that I had linked to it enough and that it can be annoying to have too many links. But on second thought, I don’t think it’s actually that annoying, and I intend for this post to be very modular, so for the use case where someone just arrives at a particular section that doesn’t have a link, well that wouldn’t be good.
And on one hand you have sort of summarized the core point of Deep Work… but part of the reason books like Deep Work or Peak are useful is because they provide lots of context and anecdotes and inspiring speeches that cause you to take the ideas seriously.
I very much agree, thank you for making this point. I updated the post to make a note of this. I did try to include lots of links to resources that elaborated on what I was talking about. I guess I could have an explicit Further Reading section for each subsection of this post, but that sorta seems like overkill to me, especially since Deep Work and Peak would be recommended numerous times, which gets repetitive. So instead I just noted the resources that are used heavily in this post up front. That plus the links to blog posts and stuff within the section seems like it’d be enough.
Related to this: there are several points in the article where you mention (but don’t link) a book that explains a concept in more detail. (i.e. “Deep Work.”)
And on one hand you have sort of summarized the core point of Deep Work… but part of the reason books like Deep Work or Peak are useful is because they provide lots of context and anecdotes and inspiring speeches that cause you to take the ideas seriously.
So another update I think’d be useful here is for each section to directly link to the places that explain things in more detail, with notes like “if you’d like to really act on this, here’s an easy next step you can take right now.”
Great points. Regarding the lack of links, I was thinking that I had linked to it enough and that it can be annoying to have too many links. But on second thought, I don’t think it’s actually that annoying, and I intend for this post to be very modular, so for the use case where someone just arrives at a particular section that doesn’t have a link, well that wouldn’t be good.
I very much agree, thank you for making this point. I updated the post to make a note of this. I did try to include lots of links to resources that elaborated on what I was talking about. I guess I could have an explicit Further Reading section for each subsection of this post, but that sorta seems like overkill to me, especially since Deep Work and Peak would be recommended numerous times, which gets repetitive. So instead I just noted the resources that are used heavily in this post up front. That plus the links to blog posts and stuff within the section seems like it’d be enough.
What do you think?