I'm Cal Newport and this is EatQuestGift, episode 183.

Here my DeepWork HQ joined by my producer, Jesse, we weren't sure if we were even going

to be able to record this episode this week.

I have a crazy schedule, it's not really crazy, it's just a schedule that has me on campus

most days all day so it gets in the way of our podcast recording.

So we didn't even know if we'd have time to record this episode, so what we were able

to do is we're squeezing this in.

We're doing a shorter form episode and I always tell Jesse, people don't know this, I tell

him at the beginning of every episode, we're going to be quick today, we never are.

But today we have to be because we have an actual sort of damal clease time limit hanging

over our head here.

So we're going to be quick 45 minutes in and out clean, we're going to slip this in and

then Thursday's episode, we're going to do a classic episode from the vault.

So you will get to hear a classic episode from the vault.

We didn't have time to record both, but I think you'll enjoy it.

You know, Jesse, I'm noticing from my letters and the statistics, the statistics we get

that there's a lot of people now who are going back to the beginning of the show and trying

to work their way forward.

So more and more people, I would say typically like, oh, these old episodes, most people

weren't around and most people didn't hear them, but people are going back and playing

through the old catalog because we're honing in now on, I don't say around 100,000 downloads

a week, but no one episode is ever going to get more than 20 something thousand downloads

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