Ep. 149: How Do I Tame Email?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Technology, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.DEEP DIVE: How do I tame email? [9:51]DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- How to accomplish deep work in the context of meeting overload? [29:09]- What is difference between the productivity funnel and capture/configure/control? [36:06]- Do you (Cal) have a filing system for emails? [40:18]- What time blocking granularity is best? [42:53]- How do you (Cal) manage projects vs tasks on your board system? [44:52]DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- How does one get a sense of satisfaction from goals that continue ad infinitum? [50:33]- How soon after the birth of a child is it realistic to start employing time blocking? [55:29]- How should one combine having young children and pursuing newfound ambitions? [59:24]- How should I think about career capital when taking time off to be a stay-at-home parent? [1:03:19]Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, 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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1:36.5	I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions, episode 149. I'm here in the Deep
1:58.8	Work HQ accompanied by my producer Jesse. Jesse, good morning. Good morning. How you
2:05.4	doing? Doing well. Thanks for coming in on a Sunday. I don't normally record on the
2:10.6	weekend, but had an opportunity show up, which will remain unspecified for now. Top secret
2:17.2	but a cool bucket list interview opportunity. So we had to hastily reschedule this. But
2:21.3	Jesse, you came in on a Sunday. Did you see the farmer's market we had going on outside?
2:25.6	Yeah, it's a nice Sunday morning, weather of trees, everything looks good. It's funny
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