Ep. 157: JENNY BLAKE: Help Me Do Less!

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Education, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In this episode, author Jenny Blake joins me for a conversation about her new book, FREE TIME: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business (https://itsfreetime.com/book), which helps entrepreneurs engineer the stress out of their work. I ask her to use myself as a case study and apply her principles to helping me reduce stress in my working life.Though FREE TIME doesn’t come out until March, if you pre-order a copy now (at https://itsfreetime.com/book) you’ll get immediate access to a pair of free copies of the audiobook: one for you and one for a friend.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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0:08.1	live a deeper life. When you sign up for Optimize you get access to over 600
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1:37.8	I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuest Tips episode 157. For the first time in a
1:49.8	little while we have an interview episode so as long time listeners know we've
1:56.7	more or less had a hold on interviews as we're preparing the deep work HQ to
2:01.8	actually have in studio guest we're figuring out our whole strategy for how we
2:06.1	want to invite guests and who you want to invite but every once in a while someone
2:10.3	I know will mention hey we should chat and I say yeah why not and this is one of
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