I'm in my mid 20s and going into my 5th year of being a full-time developer. After quite a while at my current company, I very much feel like it's time for me to find new opportunities to grow. While I learned a lot during my projects in Financial Services and Car Manufacturing, I do not feel like I'm having the positive impact in the world that I want to.

As we certainly have a privileged position in the present day and age, I'd like to have an open discussion about this question and wonder what other (more experienced) devs think about this. Do you work for science institutions or political/charitable organizations? Do you explicitly look at the business models of possible employers? Or are you just trying to spend some of your time or money to help people?

1. LeBron James

2. Greg Oden

3. Anthony Davis

4. Zion Williamson

5. Dwight Howard

6. Yao Ming

7. Derrick Rose

8. Blake Griffin

9. Kyrie Irving

10. Karl Anthony Towns

11. Andrew Wiggins

12. Ben Simmons

13. Cade Cunningham

14. John Wall

15. Markelle Fultz

16. Kwame Brown

17. Andrew Bogut

18. Andrea Bargnani

19. Anthony Edwards

20. Kenyon Martin

21. Anthony Bennett

Edit - Ayton after fultz

Schools are doing a great job to make what we started 100 years ago better but we are now in a different world with entirely different work and life needs. In the past few years of running an education company, I met many 20-24 years old, who were K15 products with a graduate degree, confused, directionless, didn't know what to do, and were looking to do something (a short course) that could land them a decent job.

40 years ago a degree meant a job. Not so anymore. Moreover, 90% of us do not use what we study in K12 directly during our lifetimes. In the changing world where 21st-century life skills are most important for our kids than ever before and a degree can not even land a job, what are some concrete implementable ways for our primary and secondary ed institutions to increase focus on BUILDING and MEASURING 21st-century skills for kids? [ Measuring is important as what get measured gets done]

Reference (21st-century skills as per WEF) -

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/large_aOuFm18dxhrYcmqVz_n9ZdZtkT3juj1ZHwzIeY0LEtA.JPG

So I recently finished reading 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport. Since I make notes out of every book I read, this time I thought of sharing it with everyone in this lovely community.

In the age of infinite information, the real skill is the ability to focus on a cognitively demanding task effortlessly.

Cultivating deep work ethic will help you achieve your goals quickly. According to Cal Newport, deep work is a superpower of the 21st century. A power anyone can acquire with enough practice

Here are the excerpts from the book.

WHY DEEP WORK?

- It is valuable

Automation is taking over and only the highly skilled professionals will survive. The improvement in communication tech and work-from-home becoming a norm of the future, the superstars of their niche and those who have fully adapted with technology will run the show.

Apart from those, the ones with the access to capital will simply acquire necessary machinery and workforce to do their work.

That is why you have to quickly master hard things and produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

- It is rare

The rise of the social media and open-floor offices have made it extremely difficult to focus at work. The shallow work (like answering unnecessary emails, pointless meetings, brainstorm sessions etc.) is all that matters.

The Age of Information has clearly taken a different route than the intended one.

But what makes deep work increasingly rare also makes it increasingly valuable in our economy.

- It is meaningful

Your world is an outcome of what you pay attention to. In the words of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a notable psychologist,

>“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Idleness is frustrating. Deep work is more satisfying.

WORK DEEPLY

>“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.”

Choose Your Depth Philosophy

• Monastic philosophy: GO ALL IN and avoid shallow tasks. This philosophy requires you to go into the deep work mode (at least a week) with no contact with the external world.
• Bimodal philosophy: Applying this philosophy, you do long hours of deep work followed by shallow tasks. For ex: You

It's clear: people who use iPhones just don't know how to justify buying something way more expensive than it needs to be. Either these people will be homeless by 30-40 or they depend on their parents' wealth. And all they can really do is compare the camera and newer phones to older ones.

So I recently finished reading 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport. Since I make notes out of every book I read, this time I thought of sharing it with everyone in this lovely community.

In the age of infinite information, the real skill is the ability to focus on a cognitively demanding task effortlessly.

Cultivating deep work ethic will help you achieve your goals quickly. According to Cal Newport, deep work is a superpower of the 21st century. A power anyone can acquire with enough practice.

Here are the excerpts from the book.

WHY DEEP WORK?

- It is valuable

Automation is taking over and only the highly skilled professionals will survive. With the improvement in communication tech and work-from-home becoming a norm of the future, the superstars of their niche and those who have fully adapted with technology will run the show.

Apart from those, the ones with the access to capital will simply acquire necessary machinery and workforce to do their work.

That is why you have to quickly master hard things and produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

- It is rare

The rise of the social media and open-floor offices have made it extremely difficult to focus at work. The shallow work (like answering unnecessary emails, pointless meetings, brainstorm sessions etc.) is all that matters.

The Age of Information has clearly taken a different route than the intended one.

But what makes deep work increasingly rare also makes it increasingly valuable in our economy.

- It is meaningful

Your world is an outcome of what you pay attention to. In the words of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a notable psychologist,

>“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Idleness is frustrating. Deep work is more satisfying.

WORK DEEPLY

>“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.”

Choose Your Depth Philosophy

• Monastic philosophy: GO ALL IN and avoid shallow tasks. This philosophy requires you to go into the deep work mode (at least a week) with no contact with the external world
• Bimodal philosophy: Applying this philosophy, you do long hours of deep work followed by shallow tasks. For ex

So I recently finished reading 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport. Since I make notes out of every book I read, this time I thought of sharing it with everyone in this lovely community.

In the age of infinite information, the real skill is the ability to focus on a cognitively demanding task effortlessly.

Cultivating deep work ethic will help you achieve your goals quickly. According to Cal Newport, deep work is a superpower of the 21st century. A power anyone can acquire with enough practice

Here are the excerpts from the book.

WHY DEEP WORK?

- It is valuable

Automation is taking over and only the highly skilled professionals will survive. With the improvement in communication tech and work-from-home becoming a norm of the future, the superstars of their niche and those who have fully adapted with technology will run the show.

Apart from those, the ones with the access to capital will simply acquire necessary machinery and workforce to do their work.

That is why you have to quickly master hard things and produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

- It is rare

The rise of the social media and open-floor offices have made it extremely difficult to focus at work. The shallow work (like answering unnecessary emails, pointless meetings, brainstorm sessions etc.) is all that matters.

The Age of Information has clearly taken a different route than the intended one.

But what makes deep work increasingly rare also makes it increasingly valuable in our economy.

- It is meaningful

Your world is an outcome of what you pay attention to. In the words of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a notable psychologist,

>“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Idleness is frustrating. Deep work is more satisfying.

WORK DEEPLY

>“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.”

Choose Your Depth Philosophy

• Monastic philosophy: GO ALL IN and avoid shallow tasks. This philosophy requires you to go into the deep work mode (at least a week) with no contact with the external world.
• Bimodal philosophy: Applying this philosophy, you do long hours of deep work followed by shallow tasks. For ex

So I recently finished reading 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport. Since I make notes out of every book I read, this time I thought of sharing it with everyone in this lovely community.

In the age of infinite information, the real skill is the ability to focus on a cognitively demanding task effortlessly.

Cultivating deep work ethic will help you achieve your goals quickly. According to Cal Newport, deep work is a superpower of the 21st century. A power anyone can acquire with enough practice.

Here are the excerpts from the book.

WHY DEEP WORK?

- It is valuable

Automation is taking over and only the highly skilled professionals will survive. The improvement in communication tech and work-from-home becoming a norm of the future, the superstars of their niche and those who have fully adapted with technology will run the show.

Apart from those, the ones with the access to capital will simply acquire necessary machinery and workforce to do their work.

That is why you have to quickly master hard things and produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

- It is rare

The rise of the social media and open-floor offices have made it extremely difficult to focus at work. The shallow work (like answering unnecessary emails, pointless meetings, brainstorm sessions etc.) is all that matters.

The Age of Information has clearly taken a different route than the intended one.

But what makes deep work increasingly rare also makes it increasingly valuable in our economy.

- It is meaningful

Your world is an outcome of what you pay attention to. In the words of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a notable psychologist,

>“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”

Idleness is frustrating. Deep work is more satisfying.

WORK DEEPLY

>“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.”

Choose Your Depth Philosophy

• Monastic philosophy: GO ALL IN and avoid shallow tasks. This philosophy requires you to go into the deep work mode (at least a week) with no contact with the external world.
• Bimodal philosophy: Applying this philosophy, you do long hours of deep work followed by shallow tasks. For ex: Yo