Ep. 184: REPLAY: The Productivity Baby Steps

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a replay from July 12, 2021.Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia- Breaking up big projects into small tasks. [5:33]- The productivity baby steps (epic answer alert). [10:12]- Taming late night meetings. [27:16]- Best book of mine for college students. [36:34]- Shutdown routines with unpredictable schedules. [40:17]Thanks to our Sponsors:Blinkist.com/DeepAthleticGreens.com/DeepExpressVPN.com/DeepNewRelic.com/DeepThanks 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	I'm Cal Newport, and this is a deep questions listener calls many episodes.
0:22.6	My main quick announcement today is that we are once again running semi-paralously
0:28.2	low on listener calls for these many episodes.
0:31.6	So now is your chance to submit a listener call that might have a good chance of making
0:37.5	it into the show.
0:39.6	If you go to CalNewport.com slash podcast, I have the instructions there for how to submit
0:47.1	your listener calls.
0:48.1	It's quite easy.
0:49.1	There's just a link.
0:50.1	You click on it.
0:51.1	It takes you to a website called SpeakPipe and right from your browser or right from
0:55.1	your phone.
0:56.1	You just hit record.
0:57.6	Do your call.
0:58.6	Boom.
0:59.6	It comes right to me.
1:00.6	And I can get them into the episode.
1:02.6	So thank you in advance for submitting your calls.
1:06.8	Now look ahead.
1:08.2	We have five good questions ahead of us, including one about late night meetings, another
1:14.5	about unpredictable shutdown due to the unpredictable napping behavior of a kid's
1:19.2	recommendations for which of my books to give graduates and even my attempt to pretend
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