Ep. 223: Could This Meeting Have Been An Email?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

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

DEEP DIVE: Could This Meeting Have Been An Email? [5:48]
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Questions for special guest host David Sax:

- Is the Light Phone worth the money? [28:38]
- How do I get started seeking higher quality leisure? [38:43]
- How do I become a successful freelance writer? [49:01]

- How do I make technical writing compelling? [1:08:03]
- How do I kick my podcast habit while trying to work? [1:15:06]
- Do weekly plans have to cover exactly one week? [1:18:44]
- Should I join the Overemployed Underground? [1:26:36]

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, episode 223.
0:22.6	I'm here in my Deep Work HQ, joined by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.8	Who just got back with me from what I think we can call our first live podcast event?
0:35.9	I think that's fair.
0:37.2	It wasn't really about us.
0:39.7	The event was for author David Sacks and his new book, The Future Is Analog.
0:45.2	It was me moderating a conversation with him, but that's like a podcast interview.
0:49.4	So I feel like it was like a live event and we had a lot of our people there in the audience
0:52.8	and so I don't know about you, but I enjoyed that.
0:55.7	I liked it a lot.
0:56.7	It was a lot of equipment, so it seemed like it was live.
0:59.0	I had like four bags, Jesse had a lot of, because of the cameras and mixers and Mike, one
1:07.0	of our fans, thought that I was a homeless guy walking into the thing, he said that to me.
1:11.7	When I saw you show up, I thought you were homeless.
1:14.7	Homeless or podcast producer?
1:16.4	That actually would be a pretty good game show.
1:19.1	Homeless or 1990s.
1:20.1	I think a lot of podcasts producers actually look more like hipsters from the early 2000s.
1:26.1	There's a lot of strain of hipsterness.
1:27.7	Anyway, the event was good.
1:28.9	David was great.
1:31.1	My audience loves the type of stuff he writes about.
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