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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- April 22, 2024
- Duration
- 1h 22m
- Channel
- Cal Newport
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Cal Newport talks about the deep life hardware in Episode 297 of the Deep Questions podcast. Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity”at www.calnewport.com/slow Why do you struggle with your grand attempts to escape distraction and aimlessness to make your life deeper? In this episode, Cal draws on an unexpected metaphor – Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Analytical Engine – to help identify the subtle obstacle on your path to increase depth. With this new understanding in hand, he then details a specific gameplan to get around it. Later, he takes questions from the audience and reacts to the new AI Pin, a tool intended to render smartphones obsolete. Download my FREE Deep Life Guide HERE: https://bit.ly/3QBIcug Listen to Episode Here: https://www.thedeeplife.com/listen/ Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Listen to Episode Here: https://www.thedeeplife.com/listen/ Links: Use this link to preorder a signed copy of “Slow Productivity”: https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/preorder-slow-productivity/ https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/ https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversation-with-cal-newport-the-key-to/id1498802610?i=1000652834277 https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/363-knowledge-work Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.rhone.com/cal https://www.shopify.com/deep https://www.policygenius.com/deepquestions https://www.grammarly.com/podcast https://www.tim.blog 0:00 The Deep Life Hardware 30:28 Does personal productivity make us anxious? 38:38 How can I build skills without getting in the way of my existing work? 42:22 How can I build a deeper life after years of neglect? 49:06 How has Sam Sulek’s stripped down YouTube channel doing so well? 59:00 How can I convince my husband that I’m not a time management snob? 1:02:31 Obsessing over quality 1:07:27 Shifting a mindset to do more deep work 1:14:14 Is the Al Pin the End of Smartphones? Connect with Cal Newport: 🔴Visit Cal's BLOG and website: https://calnewport.com/blog/ 🔴Check out Cal's books: https://calnewport.com/writing/ 🔴Check out The Deep Life: https://thedeeplife.com About Cal Newport: Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives. Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner. The videos are considered to be used under the "Fair Use Doctrine" of United States Copyright Law, Title 17 U.S. Code Sections 107-118. Videos are used for editorial and educational purposes only and I do not claim ownership of any original video content. I don't use said video clips in advertisements, marketing or for direct financial gain. All video content in each clip is considered owned by the individual broadcast companies. #CalNewport #DeepWork #DeepLife #DeepQuestions #TimeblockPlanner #WorldWithoutEmail #DeepQuestionsPodcast
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Cal Newport, featuring Cal Newport, How To Design Your Life (My Process For Achieving Goals) | Cal Newport explores Upgrade life “hardware” first so ambitious goals can actually run Cal Newport introduces a “hardware vs. software” metaphor (drawn from early computing examples) to explain why ambitious plans often collapse back into distraction.
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