This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. A good friend and I have started visiting coffee shops in the mornings for deep work time. A few hours of writing, making music or thinking. No phones (oops, sometimes they creep in) and no shallow work like emails and the like. Always enjoying the morning set with it's darkly roasted coffee. It's such a nice ritual!
Thank you for your lovely comment. Deep vs shallow work is a useful categorization and I find it gives me a consciousness of how I am spending my time. Phones, or specifically news/social media (including Substack haha!) are a big attention sucker and I find being conscious of this helps me too. I love this essay by a writer I greatly admire, Craig Mod - https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/ Happy coffee mornings!
This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. A good friend and I have started visiting coffee shops in the mornings for deep work time. A few hours of writing, making music or thinking. No phones (oops, sometimes they creep in) and no shallow work like emails and the like. Always enjoying the morning set with it's darkly roasted coffee. It's such a nice ritual!
Thank you for your lovely comment. Deep vs shallow work is a useful categorization and I find it gives me a consciousness of how I am spending my time. Phones, or specifically news/social media (including Substack haha!) are a big attention sucker and I find being conscious of this helps me too. I love this essay by a writer I greatly admire, Craig Mod - https://craigmod.com/essays/how_i_got_my_attention_back/ Happy coffee mornings!
I didn’t realize that they were so recent
Me too! They have such an old school vibe. Good marketing :-) Thank you for reading!