Any "Deep Work" by Cal Newport followers?

I periodically listen to the Deep Work podcast, and believe that it has as many good ideas about modern productivity as any source out there.

Cal has a lot of smart advice about planning goals from a place of imagining your perfect future situation. He talks about how this prevents the common trap of pursuing your passion, which leads people in directions that ultimately won't be compatible with the ideal lifestyle that one hopes to arrive at.

Why am I posting this to the Plugin forum? Because Cal has repeatedly talked about his quarterly planning system, and there are a lot of moving pieces that go in to the documents he recommends creating. If someone has time to find or prepare a recipe for how he recommends propagating lifestyle-centric goals to quarterly goals to monthly goals to a weekly a plan, with such a document I believe we could create a plugin that would help to build a proposed weekly schedule from the planning documents that one prepares.

We would certainly be open to funding the development of a plugin that helped users effectively implement Cal's planning system. I've emailed Cal's team, and they said they were open to mentioning Amplenote on the (very popular) podcast if the end product that we produce is something that their audience would benefit from.

Step one is to enumerate exactly how the pieces fit together, so we can brainstorm how a plugin would help users in the process both generating the pieces and translating them to practical, daily recommendations. Anyone got interest and bandwidth to help enumerate the pieces in a published note?

Does anybody write up a quarterly plan?

I have only had the discipline to do it once or twice. I like the idea though, I think it is good to keep some focus on the long-term, and it seems like a quarterly plan would do that.

At best I seem to write up monthly plans though, and even then, I'm pretty spotty with it. I'd love to hear from anyone that has tried to write up medium- or long-term plans, and how that went for ya?

That’s an interesting idea! I love how Cal Newport focuses on long-term vision over short-term passion—it definitely helps avoid burnout and get a clearer path to the lifestyle you want. His quarterly planning system sounds like it could be super helpful for structuring goals, and if you can create a plugin https://no-verification-casinos.net/ that translates those goals into weekly schedules, it’d be a game-changer for productivity. If you need a little break from all that planning, you can always unwind at a

Oh golly guess it's time to implement some forum banning. Coming in the next day or two. I still think a non-scammer should care about Cal, he inspired the forthcoming quarterly plans we're going to encourage people to think about more seriously

This actually does sound really intriguing, like a more structured version of the 8 week year maybe? I was really successful with that method, so I'd love to take a look at this, and could consider trying to write a plugin.

Are there a few recommended podcast episodes/posts/books that would be the best to get me up to speed on the Cal Newport method?

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