Cal Newport

This is the deep life.

These are two potential ways to pursue it.

This is the better way.

But the definition of the deep life I was using, and I was using like an old definition I'd written about five years ago, was a little process-oriented itself.

Amplify this, reduce that.

Anyway, so that's like the type of thing.

This is the type of thing I really care about is these little details about how the pieces fit together.

You get that just right.

It's implicitly felt in the reader's mind of like a pleasing sensation of things are clicking together and their mind gets it and you can make progress.

If they don't quite fit,

They won't be able to articulate what's making them uncomfortable, but the book will.

That doesn't quite match with that and just gives you a sensation.

So like the key to my books, part of the sensation my books create is all the pieces are gears that mesh.

And it's supposed to be, you're like, all of this is, then your brain is like, this makes sense.

It can grok the whole thing.

And so anyways, that's what I'm working on.

That's what works, right?

That's what works.

It's like it has to, people's minds are uncomfortable.

I've been doing this for 20 years now.