I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions to show where I answer queries for my readers about work technology and the Deep Life. Now before we get started with today's show I thought we would do a quick status

update on the podcast itself. We started in late May, it's now late August, so we've been going

for a few months now, we've done 23 episodes, and so I thought we should just step

back and say what's coming next. So I just checked my hosting

company that actually hosts these podcasts and it said in the last 30 days we've

had 133,000 downloads.

So that's good. I think we've found an audience.

I think people are liking this.

We tend to do pretty well in the technology category ranking at iTunes.

That's where we're categorized.

We're typically, I don't know, right around number 25.

So I think that's good.

I think we have a solid foundation, probably largely my existing readers from my existing newsletter and blog and so I think we

we've hit a good I don't know hit on a good format here so I look forward to

expanding our audience going forward.

Speaking of which I have camera equipment now, I'm not quite sure I'm going to get time to

set this up but I think I will start with filming clips so maybe particular answers maybe particularly

energetic rants I'll have video on that as well so that you can actually

to be able to be able to have video of the entire podcast.

For each podcast, you can have the audio, or you can watch the video. It's going to take a little bit more work because I don't do the show because it's a monologue format. I don't do the show in one take so there have to be a little bit of editing but whatever we'll figure that out.

Nothing that money can't solve. So speaking

about money, ads are coming soon. The company I'm working with a great company that

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