Ep. 19: Calendar Shaming, Digital Detox Struggles, and the Unexpected Challenges of Autonomy | DEEP QUESTIONS
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries for my readers about |
| 0:17.8 | work, technology, and the Deep Life. |
| 0:27.0 | I find myself on this rainy Sunday morning, the Deep Work World Headquarters, |
| 0:30.0 | excited about the batch of questions that I have ahead of me here. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm hoping we can get through most of them. |
| 0:36.0 | I think we have some really interesting topics to tackle. |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, I keep saying every week, |
| 0:42.0 | look out soon for a new survey being sent to my mailing list at |
| 0:46.4 | Kalnupor.com to solicit it more questions. |
| 0:49.8 | The problem is, is the last survey I sent in July July it has so many good questions that I |
| 0:54.4 | don't get very far before I filled up my whole host my whole show so like what I do |
| 0:58.9 | is I'll go through and say okay here's how far I've gotten. |
| 1:03.3 | I've looked at all the questions up to, let's say, |
| 1:04.9 | question 300 that's been submitted. |
| 1:06.4 | So now I'm going to start looking at questions |
| 1:08.0 | for this week, starting at question 300. |
| 1:10.7 | And the good ones I'll pull out for potential use in the show. |
| 1:15.0 | The problem is, is your guys questions are so good. |
| 1:17.1 | It's like every question I see becomes when I pull out for the show and I only get through |
| 1:20.7 | about a hundred questions before I've filled up my whole show. |
| 1:23.4 | So it's taking me longer than I thought to actually get through the questions you've already submitted. |
| 1:28.9 | But I think that's a good sign. |
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