I'm Kel Newport and this is DeepQuestions.

The show about living and working deeply in a world increasingly be set by distraction.

I'm here in my DeepWork HQ, joined as normal by my producer, Jesse.

So Jesse, it's official.

As of two days before the recording of this episode, I submitted my manuscript for my

new book, Slow Productivity, to my publisher, for the last two days, I have had no writing

to do.

No morning writing sessions, no trying to get my edits in, no where's my hours, I got

to get my hours.

I am on a break from writing temporarily, that manuscript has been submitted.

So what's temporarily, I mean, well, I got another half a day.

All right, if I'm going to be honest, we're going to be honest about this.

The day after I submitted the manuscript, I had a phone call with my editor at the New

Yorker and we were already planning out the next piece, which I've started on.

But I'm free from the, the thing about book writing is to make my schedule because I had

to do this in about six months every day, mattered.

So there is that constant pressure.

You don't have that constant pressure if you're working on one article because you might

be in a phase where you're researching it, you're like, yeah, I'm waiting to hear back

from some people.

I'm reading about it.

I'm thinking about it.

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