Ep. 205: Why I’m a Bad Correspondent

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

With Jesse away on vacation, Cal decides to tackle 10 questions in a row, all in one take, with no breaks, covering everything from complaints about Cal’s inaccessibility, to teaching deep work in schools, to a long pontification (read: rant) on the podcasting industry.

- Finding time to self-study [5:38]
- Why Cal is a bad correspondent [11:44]
- Can everyone become so good they can’t be ignored? [25:32]
- Should temperament affect job choice? [29:06]
- Teaching deep work in schools [33:20]
- When does Cal listen to podcasts? [37:46]
- How do I succeed in podcasting? [38:57]
- Why is Cal so contrarian? [56:22]
- How do I stay a digital minimalist after having a baby? [59:31]
- How do I teach my family and friends about the deep life? [1:02:23]

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuest Jets, episode 205.
0:23.0	I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, and by myself, no Jesse, Jesse's on vacation down in
0:29.7	Florida, Quick Public Service Announcement, just about what to expect for the
0:35.2	mid-summer episodes of this show. Jesse is gone today, so he's not going to be
0:40.7	here on this taping. Then I'm going on vacation once he returns. So what you
0:46.5	should expect if all goes well, and I'm knocking on wood here in the HQ, is next
0:52.4	week's episode will be recorded by me in an undisclosed location up in the
0:58.2	mountains of New England. I'm bringing a microphone with me. I'm going to try to
1:03.0	record outside. What's the painting expression? Plindaire, French expression
1:10.4	going to record outside. Maybe I'll have some meditations on life in the woods
1:13.9	or something similarly deep, or more likely it'll be like a normal episode, but
1:18.9	with worse sound quality and a lot of annoying animal sounds in the background.
1:22.7	Then the week after that, there is an interview I recorded actually back in
1:28.5	December. It's a digital minimalism case study. It's a two-part interview I
1:33.4	combined. Kind of an interesting experimental idea I had for an episode. Jesse's
1:37.8	editing that up, and we're going to release that two weeks from now, and going
1:43.6	forward from there, it'll just be normal episodes recorded back in the HQ with
1:48.5	Jesse. So this is one of three episodes of be a little bit different because
1:52.3	of vacations. Now what I like to do when Jesse is not here is try things different.
1:57.5	It's a time to experiment. What I thought I would do for today's episode is let's
2:02.4	get back to basics. I don't know how to operate all the fancy stuff Jesse does, so
2:07.1	no news, reactions, no split screens, no calls. I gathered 10 questions, 10
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