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Andrew Lynch's avatar

Cal Newport calls this being monastic. His book Deep Work talks about the different modes of deep work, monasticism, journalistic (any time, all hours, bits and pieces), rhythmic (Jerry Seinfeld writing for an hour a day, every day), and a hybrid. the hybrid is what he calls bimodal, which is pretty much monastic + one of the others.

I like your morning routine approach, but I still hold onto my morning. I'm definitely a morning person (wasn't always), but I like some time between waking and working. it just depends on the day.

Great post, looking fwd to more.

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Win Phyo's avatar

Jim this is an absolutely incredible piece of writing and advice. I love the depths you’ve gone into this. In one of your podcasts I think you said to an interviewer that you tend to write a lot and part of your discussions were to be precise :) even though I get this point, nothing beats you expressing most authentically. I just want to let you know I appreciate your writing and paragraphs filled with deep contemplations.

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