Ep. 146: LISTENER CALLS: A Revolution is Coming in Knowledge Work

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Technology, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Below are the topics covered in today's listener calls mini-episode (with timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.A conversation with Producer Jesse about my next book [1:48]LISTENER CALLS:- Twitter FOMO for a journalist. [16:40]- Tracking small amounts of time. [25:12]- My quarterly planning process. [30:07]- Tedious tasks with an entry level job. [34:22]- Timeblock planners spiral bindings. [38:24]- Struggling to balance teaching with research (PLUS: a bonus rant about the coming knowledge work revolution). [42:15]Thanks to Jay Kerstens for the intro music and Mark Miles for mastering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by Optimize, an online network dedicated to helping you
0:08.0	live a deeper life. When you sign up for Optimize you get access to over 600
0:14.2	philosophers notes. These are best-in-the-business summaries of some of the most
0:20.6	important nonfiction books ever written. You'll also get access to over 50 101
0:26.2	video master classes on some of these big ideas including one that I taught
0:31.6	called digital minimalism 101 and you get a daily plus one email that takes
0:37.8	one big idea from this corpus presents it to you in a accessible video and
0:43.3	then links below to the philosophers notes you can follow for the books from
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1:37.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions episode 146.
1:45.0	So for the first whatever it's been now more than a year that I have been
1:53.9	recording this podcast I've often just been alone here in the deep work HQ
1:58.6	talking to the walls which is why an exciting development is that I now have
2:04.5	someone here with me. I have Jesse who has been helping me recently actually get
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