How much money is shallow work costing you? Find out in 10 seconds.
Deep work is focused, uninterrupted work that produces high-value output — coding, writing, designing, strategising. Shallow work is everything else: email, Slack, meetings, admin.
The calculator assumes deep work hours produce 3× your hourly rate in value (conservative — Cal Newport's research suggests 5-10× for knowledge workers). Shallow work produces 1×.
Based on Cal Newport's deep work framework. The multiplier is conservative — many knowledge workers find their deep work output is worth 5-10× their hourly rate.
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