if you eliminate embodied interaction from your life, it's basically letting massive parts of your

brain atrophy. And that just gets you in trouble. I mean, we have to like to say, we have to get

suspicious when you take something that has been evolved into us over hundreds of thousands, if not

millions of years and figure that something that some 21-year-olds thought up in the,

you know, rec room of a tech incubator can replace it without there being problems.

I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about pacing yourself,

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Okay.

Now on to today's guest, Cal Newport, who is a computer scientist, a professor at Georgetown University,

and one of my absolute favorite

writers on the future of work. He's the author of the excellent books, So Good They Can't

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