Ep. 216: Deep Walking To Work Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Link to submit questions: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

- Interesting Mail Bag [7:10]

- Does walking help or hurt my work? [25:01]
- How do I tame the flow of work from outside teams? [29:10]
- Do performers need an active social media presence? [33:12]
- CALL: Should Robert keep on a writing role? [35:18]
- CALL: Should Robert be worried about his full-time job discovering his side job? [39:18]
- Are newsletters the new blogs? [44:34]
- How can I prevent my law clients from interrupting me so much? [53:33]
- Is Cal’s prediction about the rise of virtual screens a ‘hellscape’? [56:22]

- CASE STUDY: What should I put on my new website? [1:10:46]

- How do I complete things on time? [1:18:04]
- How do I take notes on a complicated project? [1:19:56]
- How can I buckle down and finish my novel? [1:22:17]

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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestions, episode 216.
0:21.4	This is a show where I answer questions from my audience about the theory and practice
0:28.9	of living and working deeply in an increasingly distracted world.
0:34.6	We want your questions for the show.
0:36.4	There's a link in the show notes.
0:38.9	You can also find it at calnewport.com slash podcasts.
0:41.8	It's easy to submit online your questions to do live calls and also send us case studies.
0:48.0	So I'm here on my DeepWork HQ joined as usual by my producer, Jesse.
0:55.5	Jesse Lossick, we did an interview for the first time.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.8	We did an interview with Kyle since we've done those because we didn't have the video
1:00.8	set up so it's nice to get Ryan Holiday back on the show.
1:04.6	How's that episode been doing?
1:06.7	That episode has been doing well.
1:08.1	I think a lot of people are watching the YouTube video of the full length episode of the
1:12.4	interview with him and then the audio podcast is doing well too.
1:16.0	That's good.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	People like themselves some Ryan Holiday.
1:19.0	He's an impressive guy.
1:20.8	He works hard.
1:21.8	He's good at selling books.
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