Matthew Lang

Cal Newport’s book Deep Work has been circling the blogs I follow for the past year. I finally took the time to read over the summer. It’s such an enriching book (I’m still reviewing my notes for it) and in an age of social media distraction I would say it is a must read.

Don’t just take my word for it though. Read the words of Julian Summerhayes who has a rightly so put together a worthy post to reflect the content of the book.

… for the recommendation Kurt.

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Amidst the chaos of the world, I was glad to be taken away for a few minutes with the Rockin’1000.

I know, from reading my friend Kurt Harden’s blog, that we may not see completely eye-to-eye politically. But, a fact of which I’m absolutely certain of is that we could sit down around a campfire with two fingers of whiskey and a decent cigar each and come around to more that we agreed on than disagreed.

— Campfire Diplomacy by Patrick Rhone

What a great idea. I just wish I lived a little closer for this little pow-wow.

Finally broke out the other stack of Field Notes notebooks I got with my Black Ice editions. Dedicating a notebook to sketching ideas for web based products like themes and web sites. First port of a call though is a new landing page for DigitalBothy.

Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.

by Nicholas Bate.

Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.