Ep. 197: I’m Writing a New Book

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 94 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.Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmediaThe Overlooked Radicalism of Tim Ferriss [13:53]QUESTIONS:- Is it time for a career change or do I just lack discipline? [37:30]- Do occasional leaks mean that my productivity system is broken? [46:02]- LISTENER CALL: How should this exhausted professorI structure her sabbatical? [50:16]Habit Tune-Up: The Corner Marking Method [59:03]- Why use a paper notebook for Time-blocking instead of an app? [1:20:58]- How can I do longer Deep Work sessions? [1:26:48]Thanks to our Sponsors:Trybasis.com/CalWren.co/DeepExpressVPN.com/DeepNovo.co/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 DeepquestGest, episode 197.
0:22.2	I'm here in my Deepwork HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse, Jesse, I hope you're doing
0:29.0	okay. I'm struggling a little bit. I was watching with dread over the last few weeks as this
0:38.2	particularly nasty cold moved from member of my family to member of my family. Getting
0:44.9	ever closer finally got me last night, so I am hopped up on Sudafed. But I have to say I'm upset
0:52.4	because I thought we had an agreement with the long-standing viruses of the world, the cold
0:58.4	viruses, the flu viruses, they get November, they get December, January, February, March,
1:03.4	will even give them early April. You want to come along on early April and catch us with one
1:07.9	of those spring colds. Okay, we'll give that to you. But mid May, we're too late. This is not
1:14.7	the agreement. This is too late for these cold and flu viruses to be circulated. Now look,
1:20.0	the new coronavirus, the SARS-CoV-2, that gets a pass for now. It's still new, it hasn't settled
1:25.2	into its seasonal pattern yet, so it's allowed to do what it does whenever. But the long-standing ones,
1:32.9	like what I have now, I thought we had an agreement. So I'm upset about that. There's no time left.
1:40.5	There's actually a theory about that. So my sister is a ER doc and she was saying in this area,
1:45.2	they're seeing flu late, flu is lasting later than normal. And so one of the ideas, and we're all
1:51.9	expert epidemiologists today, right? Because we saw things on Twitter and read articles in the
1:55.9	Atlantic, so we can all be experts on this. But one of the theories going around is in this area,
2:01.3	when Omicron hit in January, so all of the sort of dual income zoom workers that live around here
2:09.8	started getting coronavirus for the first time, they really pulled back on activities. And that
2:14.1	would have been the period where you really would be kicking off flu and cold. So like that whole
2:18.0	season got delayed a little bit. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's that's one possible
2:22.4	explanation. The other one is that God hates this podcast. So it's this way. Well, at least the
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