ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For a book like this to come into existence, dozens of people had to play a part. Their
work, summed up, is likely greater than my own.
First, I have never met in person many of the people who made this book possible.
They are the researchers whose shoulders I stood upon in assembling it. Thank you to
all those whose work is tucked away in the Notes section and in the pages of this book.
Thank you especially to Gloria Mark, Mary Czerwinski, and Shamsi Iqbal, all at
Microsoft Research, for meeting with me in person not once, but
three
times. Thank you
also to Jonathan Schooler, Jonathan Smallwood, Peter Gollwitzer, and Sophie Leroy for
so generously agreeing to chat.
Lucinda Blumenfeld, my literary agent, believed in the idea for this book from the
very start and was once again the best partner anyone could ask for in publishing a
book. Lucinda is one of those rare people who are never afraid to tell you what they
think, but at the same time will always have your back. I’m thrilled I get to work with an
agent as talented and generous as she is. Rick Kot, my editor extraordinaire at Viking,
also believed in the idea of
Hyperfocus
from the very start and let me go wild with it.
One of the best parts about writing this book was getting to work with Rick
—truly one of
the smartest, most talented, and
kindest people I’ve met. (And I don’t even need to suck
up to him anymore, because he’s already sent me his edits.) Thank you to Craig Pyette,
my crazy-talented editor at Random House Canada, who so graciously provided editing
notes that helped smooth the
book out even further. Thank you also to Diego Núñez,
Connor Eck, and Norma Barksdale, who provided invaluable support through the
publishing process.
Thank you also to Hilary Duff and Victoria Klassen, who helped me research and edit
this book. I have the tendency to write in a long-winded way, and Hilary trimmed literally
thousands of words of chaff from this book. She gave you a couple hours of your life
back, so you should probably thank her too. Victoria was, for a second time around, an
extraordinary help in not just fact checking this book but also
—as an especially big relief
for me
—formatting the Notes section, a task I wouldn’t want to touch with a ten-foot
pole. Thank you, Victoria!
In addition to those who helped shape this book, there are many others who played a
part. Thank you to Hal Fessenden and Jennifer Choi for helping us find such fantastic
publishers outside of the United States and Canada
—including Robin Harvie at
Macmillan in the United Kingdom. And to Carolyn Coleburn, Ben Petrone, Lydia Hirt,
Nora Alice Demick and Alex McGill for helping share the idea of this book in the United
States and Canada. Thank you also to Luise Jorgensen, whom I’ve had the pleasure of
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working with for more than four years now. I’m honestly not sure what I’d do without
you, Luise (and that’s not hyperbole).
Thank you to my readers, some of whom have been reading my work for many
years. I hope you found this book worthy of your time and that this book, and my work
that comes after it, pays dividends for you for many years to come.
And finally, thank you to Ardyn. Ardyn is my first reader, and I hope she always will
be. I trust her more than anyone not only to strength-test my ideas but also to help me
build them up in the first place. But much more important than anything work related,
Ardyn is the love of my life who became my fiancée over the course of writing this book.
Ardyn, from where I sit you’re one of a kind. Thank you for turning me into somebody
loved.
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