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Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Smash Notes has 12 notes from 2 episodes of Deep Questions with Cal Newport, hosted by Cal Newport. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Technology.
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…
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- What Happened When Kurt Steiner Dedicated His Life to Rock Skipping?
- Why Do You Skip a Daily Journal?
- Why Did No One Know What to Do With the New Middle-class Mode of Work?
- How Do You Stop Using YouTube as a Crutch After Work?
- Why Does Getting Lost in a Song Still Count as Solitude?
Episodes
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- Ep. 219: the Deep Reset
- Ep. 218: Work vs. Meaning
- Ep. 217: Slow Productivity Advice
- Ep. 216: Deep Walking to Work Less
- Ep. 215: RYAN HOLIDAY: Discipline Is Destiny
- Ep. 214: Quiet Quitting
- Ep. 213: the Art of Saying No
- Ep. 212: the Productivity Dragon Returns
- Ep. 211: How Cal Organizes His Life
- Ep. 210: Visions of a Deep Life
- Ep. 209: Email and Living with Purpose
- Ep. 208: To-Do Lists Are Inhumane
- Ep. 207: A Digital Minimalism Intervention (w/ JAMIE KILSTEIN)
- Ep 206 – Striving to do less
- Ep. 205: Why I’m a Bad Correspondent
- Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles
- Ep. 203: Taming Meetings
- Ep. 202: TikTok Dismisses Facebook
- Ep. 201: Making a Living Online
- Ep. 200: Decoding the Deep Life
- Ep. 199: Quieting an Ambitious Brain
- Ep. 198: the Second Principle of Slow Productivity
- Ep. 197: I’m Writing a New Book
- Ep. 196: Shutting Down Anxiety
- Ep. 195: Deep Walks
- Ep. 194: the Surprising Math of Doing Less
- Ep. 193: How do I read more?
- Ep. 192 : Habit Tune-Up Returns!
- Ep. 191: Can We Fix the Internet?
- Ep. 190: CALLS: Managing Idea Notebooks
- Ep. 189: Why Did the Times Drop Twitter?
- Ep. 188: the Books I Read in March 2022
- Ep. 187: Helping 100K Employees Work Deeper
- Ep. 186: The Power of “Day Batching”
- Ep. 185: How Do I Escape Filter Bubbles?
- Ep. 184: REPLAY: The Productivity Baby Steps
- Ep. 183: Crazy or Deep?
- Ep. 182: Cal’s Business Model
- Ep. 181: Should I Quit My Lawyer Job?
- Ep. 180: CALLS: Four Day Weeks Aren’t Enough
- Ep. 179: Do Techniques Beat Talent?
- Ep. 178: CALLS: On Doing Hard Things
- Ep. 177: Is Ambition Worth It?
- Ep. 176: CALLS: Taming Information Overload
- Ep. 175: What is the Deep Life?
- Ep. 174: CALLS: Thinking for Yourself
- Ep. 173: What is Deep Work?
- Ep. 172: CALLS: The Books I Read in January 2022
- Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?
- Ep. 170: CALLS: Don’t Follow Your Passion
- Ep. 169: How Do I Manage My Time?
- Ep. 168: Should I Quit My Law Partner Job?
- Ep. 167: What Do We Look Like? (Videos Are Now Live!)
- Ep. 166: LISTENER CALLS: The Deep Life vs. The Good Life
- Ep. 165: Why Are We Burnt Out?
- Ep. 164: LISTENER CALLS: Training for Hard Intellectual Work
- Ep. 163: the Books I Read in December 2021
- Ep. 162: LISTENER CALLS: Ambition and the Deep Life
- Ep. 161: Should I Follow My Skill or My Passion?
- Ep. 160: REPLAY: What is Discipline (and How Do I Get It?)
- Ep. 159: REPLAY: How Much Should I Read?
- Ep. 158: LISTENER CALLS: The Story of My First Book Deal
- Ep. 157: JENNY BLAKE: Help Me Do Less!
- Ep. 156: LISTENER CALLS: My Process for Writing New Yorker Articles
- Ep. 155: Is Your Productivity System Leaking?
- Ep. 154: LISTENER CALLS: Coping With a Hyperactive Job
- Ep. 153: Why Was Ian Malcom Sent to Jurassic Park?
- Ep. 152: LISTENER CALLS: The Magic of Autopilot Scheduling
- Ep. 151: Should you move to the country?
- Ep. 150: LISTENER CALLS: Finding More Family Time
- Ep. 149: How Do I Tame Email?
- Ep. 148: LISTENER CALLS: Decoding the Productive Pause
- Ep.147: Why Did I Never Join Social Media?
- Ep. 146: LISTENER CALLS: A Revolution is Coming in Knowledge Work
- Ep. 145: Is the Deep Life Compatible with Serving Humanity?
- Ep. 144: LISTENER CALLS: Is Overload Necessary?
- Ep. 143: What Would You Say You Do Here?
- Ep. 142: LISTENER CALLS: Making Hard Work Routine
- Ep. 141: Is the Era of Social Media Ending?
- Ep. 140: LISTENER CALLS: Frustration and the Deep Life
- Ep. 139: Am I Good at Time Management or Just Lazy?
- Ep. 138: LISTENER CALLS: How I Read So Much
- Ep. 137: Why Am I Uncomfortable With Facebook Backlash?
- Ep. 136: LISTENER CALLS: Reversing Burnout
- Ep. 135: Is Screen Time Bad?
- Ep. 134: LISTENER CALLS: Returning to Deep Work After the Pandemic
- Ep. 133: How Do I Defeat Distraction?
- Ep. 132: LISTENER CALLS: Managing Non-Work Tasks
- Ep. 131: the Elements of the Deep Life
- Ep. 130: LISTENER CALLS: Leadership vs. Availability
- Ep. 129: How Do I Get My Kid Off His Smartphone?
- Ep. 128: LISTENER CALLS: The Art of "No"
- Ep. 127: Does Productivity Diminish Leisure? (with Brad Stulberg)
- Ep. 126: LISTENER CALLS: A Tour of My Home Offices
- Ep. 125: What is Discipline (and How Do I Get It?)
- Ep. 124: LISTENER CALLS: Preserving Depth in the Vast Shallows
- Ep. 123: What Is My Daily Routine?
- Ep. 122: LISTENER CALLS: Figuring Out Your Values
- Ep. 121: Is Writing Everyday Overrated? (with Srini Rao)
- Ep. 120: LISTENER CALLS: Students' Diminishing Focus
- Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?
- Ep. 118: LISTENER CALLS: A Primer On My Planning Philosophy
- Ep. 117: Should I Quit My Job to Become a Writer?
- Ep. 116: RE-READING: Shop Class as Soulcraft (with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness)
- Ep. 115: JORDAN HARBINGER: What is the Future of Podcasting?
- Ep. 114: LISTENER CALLS: Growing a Podcast Without Social Media
- Ep. 113: How Do I Become a Deep Life Radical?
- Ep. 112: LISTENER CALLS: The Productivity Baby Steps
- Ep. 111: How Do I Tame Distracting Thoughts?
- Ep. 110: LISTENER CALLS: Making the Deep Life Happen
- Ep. 109: How Much Should I Read?
- Ep. 108: LISTENER CALLS: Becoming Productive
- Ep. 107: How Do I Stay Motivated on Long-Term Projects?
- Ep. 106: LISTENER CALLS: Art Without Social Media
- Ep. 105: Should I Read the News?
- Ep. 104: LISTENER CALLS: Saying "No" Without Saying "No"
- Ep. 103: What is the Relationship Between Order and Well-Being?
- Ep. 102: BRAD STULBERG: How Do We Work Less?
- Ep. 101: Does Productivity Impede the Deep Life?
- Ep. 100: LISTENER CALLS: Scheduling Household Admin
- Ep. 99: Should I Move to Sweden or Make Money?
- Ep. 98: LISTENER CALLS: Choosing the Right Job
- Ep. 97: Should I Outsource My Inbox?
- Ep. 96: LISTENER CALLS: Emotional Distractions
- Ep. 95: How Do I Maintain the Will to Do Deep Work?
- Ep. 94: LISTENER CALLS: Battling Bothersome Bosses
- Ep. 93: Am I Overcommitted or Bad at Time Management?
- Ep. 92: LISTENER CALLS: The Perils of Coercive Productivity
- Ep. 91: GREG MCKEOWN on Making Essential Work Effortless
- Ep. 90: LISTENER CALLS: My Current Scheduling Setup
- Ep. 89: Do I Need a Dumb Phone?
- Ep. 88: LISTENER CALLS: My Notebooks and Instagram-Addicted Artists
- Ep. 87: Should I Switch Careers to Pursue my Dream?
- Ep. 86: LISTENER CALLS: Mastering the Art of Thinking While Walking
- Ep. 85: Are NFTs Frivolous or Fundamental?
- Ep. 84: LISTENER CALLS: Prioritizing Projects and Deep Decor
- Ep. 83: Is Email Work?
- Ep. 82: Habit Tune-Up: The Joys and Sorrows of Binge Working
- Ep. 81: How Do I Avoid Burnout?
- Ep. 80: Habit Tune-Up: Deep Work After Hard Days
- Ep. 79: Should This Meeting Have Been an Email?
- Ep. 78: Habit Tune-Up: Time Blocking vs. Bullet Journaling
- Ep. 77: Does Email Have a Mind of Its Own?
- Ep. 76: Habit Tune-Up: Email On Speed (Taming WhatsApp)
- Ep. 75: JOSHUA FIELDS MILBURN on Saying "No" to Almost Everything
- Ep. 74: Habit Tune-Up: Taming Trello
- Ep. 73: Can I Become Rich Living Deeply?
- Ep. 72: Habit Tune-Up: Excessive Planning Syndrome
- Ep. 71: How Do We Escape the Autonomy Trap?
- Ep. 70: Habit Tune-Up: Getting Things Done During a Terrible, Isolating Pandemic
- Ep. 69: How Do I Find Joy in Leisure?
- Ep. 68: Habit Tune-Up: The Power of Becoming Your Own Assistant
- Ep. 67: TIM HARFORD on Leaving Academia to Become a Bestselling Writer
- Ep. 66: Habit Tune-Up: Bullet Journaling vs. Trello
- Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?
- Ep. 64: Habit Tune-Up: A Look Inside My Book Research Systems
- Ep. 63: How Do I Minimize Meetings?
- Ep. 62: Habit Tune-Up: Managing Information in Your Inbox
- Ep. 61: How Should I Tackle Big Projects?
- Ep. 60: Habit Tune-Up: Getting Things Done on Distracting Days
- Ep. 59: Why Be Productive?
- Ep. 58: Habit Tune-Up: Clarifying Task Organization, Graduate Student Advice, and My Research Workflow
- Ep. 57: Troubleshooting Shutdowns, Taming Overflowing Inboxes, and Tuning Core Values
- Ep. 56: Habit Tune-Up: Escaping Academic Twitter, Time Blocking During Vacation, and Making Time for Big Projects
- Ep. 55: Shallow Teams, Vague Goals, and Pandemic Screen Time
- Ep. 54: Habit Tune-Up: Capture Tools, Getting Started, and Building Skills at Home
- Ep. 53: Covey's Quads, "Perfect" Productivity Systems, and Reducing Laziness
- Ep. 52: Habit Tune-Up: Pandemic-Induced Overload, Side Hustles, and Managing for Depth
- Ep. 51: Saying "No", Building an Email List Without Social Media, and Falling Short of High Expectations | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 50: Habit Tune-Up: Artificial Overload, Deep Retirement, and Motivational Crises
- Ep. 49: Organizing Massive Projects, Taming IM, and Exploring the Deep Life Canon
- Ep. 48: Habit Tune-Up: Deep Athletes, Idea Capture, and Distracting Rumination
- Ep. 47: BRAD STULBERG on Burn Out, Career Transformation, and Intentional Living
- Ep. 46: Habit Tune-Up: Mastering Teaching, Containing Emotional Emails, and Working Deeply with a Newborn
- Ep. 45: My Trello Setup, Student and Screens, My Call for a Deep Reset | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 44: Habit Tune-Up: Prioritizing Tasks, Balancing My Many Endeavors, and Resisting Radicalization
- Ep. 43: Unproductive Days, Content Fatigue, and Cultivating Character | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 42: GREG MCKEOWN and I Discuss Unplugging, Doing Less, and Finding Focus
- Ep. 41: Selling Your First Book, Shallow Spouses, and My Dream Schedule | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 40: Habit Tune-Up: Optimal Notebook Usage, Quarterly Planning, and Combating Burn Out
- Ep. 39: DAVID EPSTEIN on Skills, Practice, and the Subtle Art of Cultivating a Meaningful Career
- Ep. 38: Habit Tune-Up: Daily vs. Weekly Planning, Supercharging Home Offices, and Taming Demanding Jobs
- Ep.37: The Planning Fallacy, Inbox Zero, and the Limits of Ethical Technology | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 36: Habit Tune-Up: Scheduling Life Admin, Finding Time for Practice, and High-Tech Metric Tracking
- Ep. 35: Managing Deeply, Quitting Facebook, and Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Information Overload | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 34: Habit Tune-Up: Productivity Chimeras, OmniFocus, and Finding Time to Write
- Ep 33: Rethinking Delegation, Pandemic Childcare, and Balancing Deep Work with Deep Hobbies
- Ep. 32: Habit Tune-Up: Tracking Deliberate Practice, Getting Over the Fact Work is Hard, and Taming the Emotional Rigors of Depth
- Ep. 31: RYAN HOLIDAY on Ranch Life, Fostering Discipline, and the Loss of Reading Culture
- Ep. 30: Habit Tune-Up: Easing into Time Blocks, Planning Big Goals, and the Story of How I Sold My First Book
- Ep. 29: My Daily Routine, Returning to Deep Work, and Digital Minimalism During a Pandemic | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 28: Habit Tune-Up: Multiplying Eureka Moments, My Capture Setup, and Reducing Mass Email Destruction
- Ep. 27: Inside My Planning Discipline, the Joys and Sorrows of Slack, and Finding Depth Among Shallow Friends | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 26: Habit Tune-Up: My Fall Schedule, Tough Love for a Distracted Listener, and Deep Meetings
- Ep. 25: Student Shutdown Rituals, Optimal Deep-to-Shallow Ratios, and the $20 Million Question | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 24: Habit Tune-Up: Slaying the Productivity Hydra, Upgrading Careers, and Mastering a Difficult Job
- Ep. 23: Email Saunas, Preaching Depth, and Rooted Productivity | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 22: Habit Tune-Up: Seeking Depth When Working from Home, Academia's Email Problem, and Sequencing Projects
- Ep. 21: Taming Writer's Block, the Exaggerated Importance of a Digital Presence, and the Miseries of Digital Living | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 20: Habit Tune-Up: Productivity System Indecision, Embracing Boredom, and Craving Depth in a Shallow Job
- Ep. 19: Calendar Shaming, Digital Detox Struggles, and the Unexpected Challenges of Autonomy | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 18: Habit Tune-Up: Outsourcing Chores, Mitigating Unavoidable Distractions, and Productivity Beyond Basic Lists
- Ep. 17: Delegation Without Email, Fighting Imposter Syndrome, and My Thoughts on Critical Theory | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 16: Habit Tune-Up: Why Relaxation is Overrated and the Importance of Facing the Productivity Dragon
- Ep. 15: Deep Work in Groups, Social Media in Politics, and Confronting Common Arguments Against My Work | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 14: Habit Tune-Up: Publishing Strategies, Surviving Side Hustles, Productivity for Support Roles, and Cultivating Balance in the Pursuit of Depth
- Ep. 13: Where I Work, Convincing Students to Disconnect, and Applying Deep Work to Deep Social Problems | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 12: Habit Tune-Up: Office Hours, Rabbit Holes, Perfectionism, Phones as Escape, and Making Deep Work Deeper
- Ep. 11: Work Resistance, Techno-Criticism, Tales from MIT, and the Depth-Destroying Power of Children | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 10: Battling Email, Online Learning, and a Game Plan for Escaping a Shallow Life | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 9: Habit Tune-Up: Dumbing Down Smartphones, Deep Habits, Progress on Non-Urgent Projects and Training Focus
- Ep. 8: Fleeing a Collapsing Career, Taking Notes on Books, Building a Deep Life | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 7: Habit Tune-Up: Time Blocking, Document Collaboration, Protecting Time and Doing Too Much
- Ep. 6: Balancing the Personal and Professional, Unreasonable Email Expectations, and Avoiding Hard Creative Work | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 5: Tackling Procrastination, Building a Productivity System from Scratch, and the Intellectual Shallowness of Social Media | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 4: Promoting Books without Social Media, Facebook's Fatal Flaw, and Escaping Soul-Crushing Jobs | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 3: Origin of my Productivity Obsession, Analog Relationships, and Detaching from Digital Judgment | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 2: Improving Concentration, Influential Books, and Figuring Out What to Focus On | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 1: My New Task System, Deep Work with Kids, and Finding Purpose in Distracted Times | DEEP QUESTIONS
- Ep. 219: the Deep Reset
- Ep. 218: Work vs. Meaning
- Ep. 217: Slow Productivity Advice
- Ep. 216: Deep Walking to Work Less
- Ep. 215: RYAN HOLIDAY: Discipline Is Destiny
- Ep. 214: Quiet Quitting
- Ep. 213: the Art of Saying No
- Ep. 212: the Productivity Dragon Returns
- Ep. 211: How Cal Organizes His Life
- Ep. 210: Visions of a Deep Life
- Ep. 209: Email and Living with Purpose
- Ep. 208: To-Do Lists Are Inhumane
- Ep. 207: A Digital Minimalism Intervention (w/ JAMIE KILSTEIN)
- Ep 206 – Striving to do less
- Ep. 205: Why I’m a Bad Correspondent
- Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles
- Ep. 203: Taming Meetings
- Ep. 202: TikTok Dismisses Facebook
- Ep. 201: Making a Living Online
- Ep. 200: Decoding the Deep Life
- Ep. 199: Quieting an Ambitious Brain
- Ep. 198: the Second Principle of Slow Productivity
- Ep. 197: I’m Writing a New Book
- Ep. 196: Shutting Down Anxiety
- Ep. 195: Deep Walks
- Ep. 194: the Surprising Math of Doing Less
- Ep. 193: How do I read more?
- Ep. 192 : Habit Tune-Up Returns!
- Ep. 191: Can We Fix the Internet?
- Ep. 190: CALLS: Managing Idea Notebooks
- Ep. 189: Why Did the Times Drop Twitter?
- Ep. 188: the Books I Read in March 2022
- Ep. 187: Helping 100K Employees Work Deeper
- Ep. 186: The Power of “Day Batching”
- Ep. 185: How Do I Escape Filter Bubbles?
- Ep. 184: REPLAY: The Productivity Baby Steps
- Ep. 183: Crazy or Deep?
- Ep. 182: Cal’s Business Model
- Ep. 181: Should I Quit My Lawyer Job?
- Ep. 180: CALLS: Four Day Weeks Aren’t Enough
- Ep. 179: Do Techniques Beat Talent?
- Ep. 178: CALLS: On Doing Hard Things
- Ep. 177: Is Ambition Worth It?
- Ep. 176: CALLS: Taming Information Overload
- Ep. 175: What is the Deep Life?
- Ep. 174: CALLS: Thinking for Yourself
- Ep. 173: What is Deep Work?
- Ep. 172: CALLS: The Books I Read in January 2022
- Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?
- Ep. 170: CALLS: Don’t Follow Your Passion
- Ep. 169: How Do I Manage My Time?
- Ep. 168: Should I Quit My Law Partner Job?
- Ep. 167: What Do We Look Like? (Videos Are Now Live!)
- Ep. 166: LISTENER CALLS: The Deep Life vs. The Good Life
- Ep. 165: Why Are We Burnt Out?
- Ep. 164: LISTENER CALLS: Training for Hard Intellectual Work
- Ep. 163: the Books I Read in December 2021
- Ep. 162: LISTENER CALLS: Ambition and the Deep Life
- Ep. 161: Should I Follow My Skill or My Passion?
- Ep. 160: REPLAY: What is Discipline (and How Do I Get It?)
- Ep. 159: REPLAY: How Much Should I Read?
- Ep. 158: LISTENER CALLS: The Story of My First Book Deal
- Ep. 157: JENNY BLAKE: Help Me Do Less!
- Ep. 156: LISTENER CALLS: My Process for Writing New Yorker Articles
- Ep. 155: Is Your Productivity System Leaking?
- Ep. 154: LISTENER CALLS: Coping With a Hyperactive Job
- Ep. 153: Why Was Ian Malcom Sent to Jurassic Park?
- Ep. 152: LISTENER CALLS: The Magic of Autopilot Scheduling
- Ep. 151: Should you move to the country?
- Ep. 150: LISTENER CALLS: Finding More Family Time
- Ep. 149: How Do I Tame Email?
- Ep. 148: LISTENER CALLS: Decoding the Productive Pause
- Ep.147: Why Did I Never Join Social Media?
- Ep. 146: LISTENER CALLS: A Revolution is Coming in Knowledge Work
- Ep. 145: Is the Deep Life Compatible with Serving Humanity?
- Ep. 144: LISTENER CALLS: Is Overload Necessary?
- Ep. 143: What Would You Say You Do Here?
- Ep. 142: LISTENER CALLS: Making Hard Work Routine
- Ep. 141: Is the Era of Social Media Ending?
- Ep. 140: LISTENER CALLS: Frustration and the Deep Life
- Ep. 139: Am I Good at Time Management or Just Lazy?
- Ep. 138: LISTENER CALLS: How I Read So Much
- Ep. 137: Why Am I Uncomfortable With Facebook Backlash?
- Ep. 136: LISTENER CALLS: Reversing Burnout
- Ep. 135: Is Screen Time Bad?
- Ep. 134: LISTENER CALLS: Returning to Deep Work After the Pandemic
- Ep. 133: How Do I Defeat Distraction?
- Ep. 132: LISTENER CALLS: Managing Non-Work Tasks
- Ep. 131: the Elements of the Deep Life
- Ep. 130: LISTENER CALLS: Leadership vs. Availability
- Ep. 129: How Do I Get My Kid Off His Smartphone?
- Ep. 128: LISTENER CALLS: The Art of "No"
- Ep. 127: Does Productivity Diminish Leisure? (with Brad Stulberg)
- Ep. 126: LISTENER CALLS: A Tour of My Home Offices
- Ep. 125: What is Discipline (and How Do I Get It?)
- Ep. 124: LISTENER CALLS: Preserving Depth in the Vast Shallows
- Ep. 123: What Is My Daily Routine?
- Ep. 122: LISTENER CALLS: Figuring Out Your Values
- Ep. 121: Is Writing Everyday Overrated? (with Srini Rao)
- Ep. 120: LISTENER CALLS: Students' Diminishing Focus
- Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?
- Ep. 118: LISTENER CALLS: A Primer On My Planning Philosophy
- Ep. 117: Should I Quit My Job to Become a Writer?
- Ep. 116: RE-READING: Shop Class as Soulcraft (with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness)
- Ep. 115: JORDAN HARBINGER: What is the Future of Podcasting?
- Ep. 114: LISTENER CALLS: Growing a Podcast Without Social Media
- Ep. 113: How Do I Become a Deep Life Radical?
- Ep. 112: LISTENER CALLS: The Productivity Baby Steps
- Ep. 111: How Do I Tame Distracting Thoughts?
- Ep. 110: LISTENER CALLS: Making the Deep Life Happen
- Ep. 109: How Much Should I Read?
- Ep. 108: LISTENER CALLS: Becoming Productive
- Ep. 107: How Do I Stay Motivated on Long-Term Projects?
- Ep. 106: LISTENER CALLS: Art Without Social Media
- Ep. 105: Should I Read the News?
- Ep. 104: LISTENER CALLS: Saying "No" Without Saying "No"
- Ep. 103: What is the Relationship Between Order and Well-Being?
- Ep. 102: BRAD STULBERG: How Do We Work Less?
- Ep. 101: Does Productivity Impede the Deep Life?
- Ep. 100: LISTENER CALLS: Scheduling Household Admin
- Ep. 99: Should I Move to Sweden or Make Money?
- Ep. 98: LISTENER CALLS: Choosing the Right Job
- Ep. 97: Should I Outsource My Inbox?
- Ep. 96: LISTENER CALLS: Emotional Distractions
- Ep. 95: How Do I Maintain the Will to Do Deep Work?
- Ep. 94: LISTENER CALLS: Battling Bothersome Bosses
- Ep. 93: Am I Overcommitted or Bad at Time Management?
- Ep. 92: LISTENER CALLS: The Perils of Coercive Productivity
- Ep. 91: GREG MCKEOWN on Making Essential Work Effortless
- Ep. 90: LISTENER CALLS: My Current Scheduling Setup
- Ep. 89: Do I Need a Dumb Phone?
- Ep. 88: LISTENER CALLS: My Notebooks and Instagram-Addicted Artists
- Ep. 87: Should I Switch Careers to Pursue my Dream?
- Ep. 86: LISTENER CALLS: Mastering the Art of Thinking While Walking
- Ep. 85: Are NFTs Frivolous or Fundamental?
- Ep. 84: LISTENER CALLS: Prioritizing Projects and Deep Decor
- Ep. 83: Is Email Work?
- Ep. 82: Habit Tune-Up: The Joys and Sorrows of Binge Working
- Ep. 81: How Do I Avoid Burnout?
- Ep. 80: Habit Tune-Up: Deep Work After Hard Days
- Ep. 219: the Deep Reset
- Ep. 79: Should This Meeting Have Been an Email?
- Ep. 218: Work vs. Meaning
- Ep. 78: Habit Tune-Up: Time Blocking vs. Bullet Journaling
- Ep. 217: Slow Productivity Advice
- Ep. 77: Does Email Have a Mind of Its Own?
- Ep. 216: Deep Walking to Work Less
- Ep. 76: Habit Tune-Up: Email On Speed (Taming WhatsApp)
- Ep. 215: RYAN HOLIDAY: Discipline Is Destiny
- Ep. 75: JOSHUA FIELDS MILBURN on Saying "No" to Almost Everything
- Ep. 214: Quiet Quitting
- Ep. 74: Habit Tune-Up: Taming Trello
- Ep. 213: the Art of Saying No
- Ep. 73: Can I Become Rich Living Deeply?
- Ep. 212: the Productivity Dragon Returns
- Ep. 72: Habit Tune-Up: Excessive Planning Syndrome
- Ep. 211: How Cal Organizes His Life
- Ep. 71: How Do We Escape the Autonomy Trap?
- Ep. 210: Visions of a Deep Life
- Ep. 70: Habit Tune-Up: Getting Things Done During a Terrible, Isolating Pandemic
- Ep. 209: Email and Living with Purpose
- Ep. 69: How Do I Find Joy in Leisure?
- Ep. 208: To-Do Lists Are Inhumane
- Ep. 68: Habit Tune-Up: The Power of Becoming Your Own Assistant
- Ep. 207: A Digital Minimalism Intervention (w/ JAMIE KILSTEIN)
- Ep. 67: TIM HARFORD on Leaving Academia to Become a Bestselling Writer
- Ep 206 – Striving to do less
- Ep. 66: Habit Tune-Up: Bullet Journaling vs. Trello
- Ep. 205: Why I’m a Bad Correspondent
- Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?
- Ep. 204: Deep Life Principles
- Ep. 64: Habit Tune-Up: A Look Inside My Book Research Systems
- Ep. 203: Taming Meetings
- Ep. 63: How Do I Minimize Meetings?
- Ep. 202: TikTok Dismisses Facebook
- Ep. 62: Habit Tune-Up: Managing Information in Your Inbox
- Ep. 201: Making a Living Online
- Ep. 61: How Should I Tackle Big Projects?
- Ep. 200: Decoding the Deep Life
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