Cal Newport is a computer science professor and a New York Times bestselling author who writes about the impact of technology on society, and the struggle to work and live deeply in a world increasingly mired in digital distractions. On this podcast, he answers questions from his readers and offers advice about cultivating focus, productivity, and meaning amidst the noise that pervades our lives.
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“That came up in digital minimalism, my book, where someone talked about they got rid of all the apps off their phone”
“I think what all of these answers What we learned in all three stories is orbiting in some degree around the central idea of my next book. which is coming out in March called The Deep Life”
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“So then I got Warren Littlefield. Who was the like entertainment executive NBC that was there who started Must C T V ... his memoir about how they made must see TV Thursday night on ABC a big thing”
“Now I documented this effect, for example, in my twenty twenty one book here, I'll hold it up here, A World Without Email”
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“This is a Part of my explanation for of all my books, actually the the the book that performed the worst was A World Without Email”
“I write about this in my last book, Slow Productivity, that the problem is is that each major project that has a deep work core brings with it its own administrative overhead”
“I'm just finishing up a long book, Jesse, that I found at a Use book store nineteen seventy five. Telephone the first hundred years by John Brooks”
“Read a new book recently, Jesse. Simplify By Jim Vanderhy, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz”
“if anyone builds it, everyone dies, you kind of get that impression”
“I came across the work of Ray Kurzwell, who I later ended up being a research assistant too ... was completely Outrageous. There's a point In the book where Ray Kerswell says ... he believes there is a Um greater than fifty percent chance Of us making it through This century. Without destroying ourselves”
“All of the strategies for this, the best place to find them in my canon would be my last book, which was Slow Productivity”
“I think they're talking about So Good They Can't Ignore You. All right. So this is about my first hardcover book. From two thousand and twelve”
“I do know I read earlier in September I read the book Floating Mountains by Joe Rode”
“Carstensen. wrote a book called Journey into Imagination”
“I then read Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's actually for a book group I joined, that's what they wanted to read”
“That was my My most recent book. For those who are new to the show, it was called slow productivity”
“like what you wrote in the Craftsman mindset ... The Craftsman mindset comes from my book. So good they can't ignore you back from twenty twelve”
“you need to read how to win a college, how to become a straight student, and how to become a high school. Superstar”
“you need to read how to win a college, how to become a straight student, and how to become a high school. Superstar”
“you need to read how to win a college, how to become a straight student, and how to become a high school. Superstar”
“They were very inspired by a book that was written by a researcher named Eric Drexler”
“Today I was wrestling with the depiction of Immanuel Kant's critique of pure reason and wondered whether you will address these developments”
“Well, I have an upcoming book in March called The Deep Life, which I'll talk about more soon”
“Slow Productivity and Deep Life have both been released right around then, so it's a fun birthday treat to have a new one of your books released”
“slow productivity, We have this issue in knowledge work where it's hard to measure quality”
“I mean I recently read Walter Ong's on orality and literature, literacy and culture, right”
“if you're using like David Allen's getting things done. He suggests answering the win question with physical context”
“book and I believe had a big grant that was looking critically at colonialism and saying There's a lot that was bad about colonialism. There's other things that was good. It's complicated. It was called colonialism a moral reckoning”
“my thirteen year old son is reading Michael Crichton's two thousand and two book, Pray”
“when you went on your last book tour with slow productivity, it always came back to The three you know, core fundamentals of soul productivity”
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“I went back and reread in Defense of Food, you know, a few months ago because that's my model”
“remember way back like I read his bu I was reading his autobiography And as I finished it. I got an email from Michael Lovitz”
“One of the books I finished this last week was An Inside Job by Daniel Silva”
“the other book I finished was Speaking of Disney, Three Years in Wonderland by Tom James Pierce”
“So my first three books, How to Win to College, How to Become a Strat A Student, How to Become a High School Superstar”
“How to Win to College, How to Become a Strat A Student, How to Become a High School Superstar”
“How to Win to College, How to Become a Strat A Student, How to Become a High School Superstar”
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