Ep. 158: LISTENER CALLS: The Story of My First Book Deal

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Education, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Below are the topics covered in today's listener calls episode (with timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.LISTENER CALLS:- Was Tesla the ultimate deep thinker? [4:01]- Writing for academic audiences (bonus: the story of my first book deal). [7:03]- The difference between deep work and the deep life buckets (bonus: Jesse and I discuss the latest progress on my new book). [19:05]- Do YouTubers have a terrible job? [45:06]- Preparing for the GMAT and job interviews. [52:18]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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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by Optimize, an online network dedicated to helping you
0:08.1	live a deeper life. When you sign up for Optimize you get access to over 600
0:14.3	philosophers notes. These are best-in-the-business summaries of some of the most
0:20.6	important nonfiction books ever written. You also get access to over 50 101
0:26.2	video master classes on some of these big ideas including one that I taught
0:31.7	a digital minimalism 101 and you get a daily plus one email that takes one big
0:38.5	idea from this corpus presents it to you in a accessible video and then links
0:43.8	below to the philosophers notes you can follow for the books from which that
0:47.3	knowledge was extracted. I've been talking about Optimize on this podcast for a
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1:24.9	your free account on Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions episode 158
1:49.1	here in the deep worked HQ joined us always by Jesse but not as always we're
1:56.0	actually trying something new today that we're quite excited about. This is the
2:02.0	first time we have had the technical capability to actually record and film an
2:07.4	entire episode of this podcast live as opposed to doing multiple cuts and
2:13.6	takes recording a question stopping bringing another question doing another
2:16.6	question stopping we're actually going to try to do this whole thing live which
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