> The key is that you’re not extending the time of the meeting itself. That is, you still attend the meeting for the originally proposed time. The extra 50% on your calendar is a meeting margin protected for your own personal use. [source](http://calnewport.com/blog/2016/04/15/schedule-meeting-margins/)

Social media as we have experienced it is often about building an agenda, generally not about building understanding. The overwhelming stream affords surface understanding, whereas cultivating a personal (but public) knowledge space can help us take a more measured, deeper approach to understanding. —- Connecting dots and building understanding of an issue either takes a lot…

If deep work is going to be a realistic possibility in the modern “knowledge worker” office, leadership has to stand behind the idea. —- > > I suggest in my book that employees interested in depth should discuss the topic with their boss. In more detail, during this respectful conversation you should try to accomplish the…