Cal Newport

The name most people encounter first through his writing on attention — how to protect it, how to manage it in an environment built to fragment it. That work has made him a reference point for readers trying to think clearly about their relationship with digital tools.

Alongside the books, he holds a full-time post as a professor of computer science at Georgetown University. The academic job is not a footnote to the writing career; he does both, which is part of why his arguments about focused work tend to land with people who have technical jobs of their own.

Born in 1982, he is American, and writes nonfiction. His site is calnewport.com.