You can afford anything, just not everything.

Every choice that you make carries a trade-off, and that applies not just to your money,

but to your time, your energy, your focus, to anything in your life that's a scarce or

limited resource.

Your resources need to be managed, and that opens up two questions.

First, what's most important?

Second, how do you align your daily decision-making to reflect that?

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice, and that is what this podcast is

here to explore.

My name is Paula Pat.

I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation, and on the topic of managing the assets of

your time, your energy, and your attention, we've invited Georgetown Computer Science Professor

and Best Selling Author, Cal Newport, to return to the show to discuss a world without

email.

Cal Newport is very much a proponent of deep work.

He argues that focused work, such as writing or coding, the type of work that requires

hours of concentration, is the type of work that, among knowledge workers, produces some

of the most important benefits to society.

It produces some of the biggest productivity gains per hour, and yet our ability to do

deep work is becoming increasingly rare as we are plugged into this hyperactive hive

mind of email and Slack and communications.

He has been on this podcast twice before to discuss deep work, as well as to discuss digital

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