Ep. 168: Should I Quit My Law Partner Job?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 44 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.Videos of today’s questions: https://tinyurl.com/b2rkctfjDEEP WORK QUESTIONS:- How should we use a ticketing system? [4:15]- Should I resign after my boss does? [9:19]- Are breaks to rest your eyes considered context switching? [13:10]- How do you time block long but ambiguous intellectual activity? [21:49] - How do you get back to scheduling after a vacation? [24:57] DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:- Is it okay for a one activity to fit into two different deep life buckets? [29:51] - How do I live deeply with a demanding job (i.e., should I quit my law partner job?) [33:51]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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1:37.2	Questions episode 168. So as mentioned in Mondays episode which I actually just
1:49.1	finished recording since I record back to back. Jesse is not here today he'll
1:54.4	be back next week. Because of that instead of doing what I normally do for
2:00.3	Thursday's episode which is a listener calls episode I'm going to instead do a
2:05.5	classic written question episode. And the reason is typically when Jesse is
2:13.1	here the way we do the listener calls episode is we do him live. Jesse has the
2:17.1	calls loaded up on a sound board essentially and he can just play them and we
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