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Cal NewportStop Doom Scrolling & End The Social Media Distraction - Declutter Your Life Today | Cal Newport
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- Released
- February 19, 2024
- Duration
- 1h 10m
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- Cal Newport
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Pre-order "Slow Productivity" and get a free download excerpt and two bonuses HERE: https://www.calnewport.com/slow Cal Newport talks about confronting your phone in Episode 288 of the Deep Questions podcast. We’ve become so used to our phones in our lives that we’ve stopped realizing how arbitrary and unusual the content we’re watching really has become. In this episode, Cal looks closer at what we’re really spending time doing on our phones, then provides step-by-step instructions for healing this relationship. Download my FREE Deep Life Guide HERE: https://bit.ly/3QBIcug Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Listen to Episode Here: https://www.thedeeplife.com/listen/ Download my FREE Deep Life Guide HERE: https://bit.ly/3QBIcug Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Listen to Episode Here: https://www.thedeeplife.com/listen/ Links: https://twitter.com/explore/tabs/trending https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/popular/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?lang=en https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-consolations-of-fantasy Use this link to preorder a signed copy of “Slow Productivity”: https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/preorder-slow-productivity/ FREE download excerpt and 2 Bonuses for “Slow Productivity”: www.calnewport.com/slow Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.ladderlife.com/deepquestions https://www.mybodytutor.com https://www.rhone.com/cal https://www.mintmobile.com/deep 0:00 Confronting Your Phone 25:10 What does Cal think about Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves To Death”? 29:49 Can you pursue high quality leisure after a day filled with deep work? 34:02 Can commercial breaks be used for high quality leisure? 37:11 Will digital minimalism work in age of augmented reality? 43:28 How can a full time YouTuber practice digital minimalism? 49:13 How to share content online? 57:29 Cost-benefit analysis of technology usage 1:03:08 JRR Tolkien’s Search for Depth 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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Cal Newport
hostComputer science professor and author known for productivity and digital minimalism, including the TED Talk “Quit Social Media” and the book “Digital Minimalism.”
Cal Newport
hostComputer science professor and author focused on productivity and digital minimalism.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Cal Newport, featuring Cal Newport and Cal Newport, Stop Doom Scrolling & End The Social Media Distraction - Declutter Your Life Today | Cal Newport explores Cal Newport Tours Social Media, Then Explains How to Reclaim Leisure Cal Newport, who has never used social media, loads up Twitter/X, Instagram and TikTok on air and concludes they are not evil but strange as the foundation of a culture's leisure time.
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