What if good scholarship looks like laziness?

To put it another way: become hard to reach, avoid new tech tools, be slow to answer e-mails, become blissfully ignorant of memes, turn down coffee requests, refuse to “hop on” calls, and spend whole days outside working in a single idea—these are exactly the type of lazy behaviors that can change the world.

Newport, C. (2015). Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy. Behance.

How many of us accept requests for our time knowing full well that what we’re being asked to do isn’t going to move the needle on the high-value work we know is important?