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I started reading this book due to my trust in the Manning editorial and was I wrong.

There are loads of edition errors where, for instance, the explanation of a code block refers to columns while the code is about rows.

Many code examples are pointless. The example about forms is awful. There are two text fields, one of them is always ignored and by the end of the chapter the author says "I don't actually care about the state. I only included it for an extra example". Man, if a part of code is dead please get rid of it.

I don't really blame the author, this is his first book. I'm appalled by the editorial team at Manning for allowing this to be published in this form.

All the main ideas, takeaways, references and processes of this book fit into a small two pages article. It's basically time management and a criticism of how social media affects our attention span and ability to concentrate.

The other 290 pages of this book are full of really bad self-help prose oozing white privilege, patriarchy, meritocracy and capitalist propaganda.

Instead of getting into the shallow endeavour of reading this book I recommend anyone interested to read I Read Cal Newport’s Deep Work So You Don’t Have To by Natalie Luhrs and Deep Work by Cal Newport: Summary & Notes by Graham Mann. It will take you five minutes to read both articles and you can dedicate your time to some profitable deep work.

It's ironic that by avoiding reading this book you will be following Cal Newport's advice to the letter.