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Books like Slow Productivity

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport is about productivity, knowledge work, focus. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Deep Work
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    Deep Work

    Cal Newport · Self-help

    Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.

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  2. A World Without Email
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    A World Without Email

    Cal Newport · Business

    A World Without Email is Cal Newport's most targeted critique of modern knowledge work culture.

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  3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    Greg McKeown · Self-help

    Essentialism is Greg McKeown's argument that the way most people approach work and life — saying yes to almost everything — is a slow form of defeat.

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  4. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

    Oliver Burkeman · Self-help

    Four Thousand Weeks is Oliver Burkeman's philosophical attack on the entire project of time management as it is usually practiced.

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  5. 12 Rules for Life
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    12 Rules for Life

    Jordan Peterson · Self-help

    12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.

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  6. A Mind for Numbers
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    A Mind for Numbers

    Barbara Oakley · Self-help

    A Mind for Numbers is Barbara Oakley's guide to learning hard subjects effectively, written primarily for students struggling with mathematics and science but drawing on cognitive science principles that apply to any demanding field.

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