Ep. 222: Did Cavemen Use To-Do Lists?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

DEEP DIVE: Did Caveman Use To-Do Lists? [1:28]
Article Link: bit.ly/3NYRbnF

- LIVE CALL: Debating a master’s program [27:59]
- How do I practice the “journalistic” mode of scheduling deep work? [37:32]
- How do I determine when something I’m working on is good enough? [44:20]
- Should I take two months off work to write in a cabin? [49:14]
- Is answering email quickly really a good marker of talent? [53:45]
- Is there a tutorial for Cal’s planning system? [1:00:04]
- When is the new version of the Time Block Planner coming? [1:01:34]

CASE STUDY: A Freelancer Crafts a Deep Life [1:04:18]

CAL REACTS: New Insights on Kids and Phones [1:16:33]

School Took Smartphones Away: on.wsj.com/3Trj4G3
Social Media and Teenage Mental Health: bit.ly/3A3KN99

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm CalNewPort and this is DeepQuestGest, episode 222.
0:22.9	I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.7	Jesse, we got a big variety pack of a show today in terms of a diversity of different types of clips and segments and questions we have coming up.
0:39.6	I'm pretty excited about it, actually.
0:41.0	Yeah, it's cool. It's always good to have different topics.
0:44.0	There's a deep dive. I have a New Yorker piece out, so I like to take some time to talk about those.
0:51.4	We have a live call.
0:54.2	People enjoyed and we did our first live call a couple of weekends ago, so you get to hear me interact back and forth with a listener.
1:02.0	We have our standard questions and we have a news reaction segment coming up later.
1:08.0	There's some new information and case studies out in the world of kids and phones, which I thought was interesting and even a little bit optimistic, so we have that all coming up.
1:17.3	So a lot of different type of segments all combined into the same episode, so I think we should just get rolling and start as I like to with a deep dive.
1:29.0	The title I want to use for today's deep dive is the question, did cavemen use to do list?
1:37.9	I know cavemen is an out-update term, but I like the way it sounds, a little pithy title, so we'll be a little anachronistic there.
1:46.4	This deep dive is about an article that I recently published in the New Yorker.
1:51.4	I will put on the screen now for those who are watching the episode at youtube.com slash talent report media.
1:57.7	At the very least, so we can feature this really cool graphic that Calum Heath put together for the article.
2:03.4	They sent me a black and white draft of this when he was still working on it.
2:06.6	I think it's cool for those who are listening.
2:08.1	It's a graphic where two knowledge workers have tipped a desk over and one of them is holding a spear
2:16.0	and they're looking over the desk into a paleolithic savanna type situation with some gear out there,
2:22.1	and it's all digitized and it's a cool piece of artwork.
2:24.4	So here's the official title of this latest article.
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