Protect two focused hours a day: a practical guide to deep work
You don't need a monastery. You need two protected hours and a few rules to keep them.
Writer — Focus & Habits
Sofia trained as a cognitive scientist, researching attention and memory, before deciding she would rather help people use those findings than publish papers only other researchers would read. She is careful with evidence and allergic to productivity hype.
She writes about focus, habit formation, learning, and protecting your attention in a job designed to fracture it. Sofia is based in Stockholm and reads more than is strictly reasonable.
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