I came across the idea of reading within your field to reach the cutting edge in one of your earlier

podcasts. However, my question is, how do you create a system where by which you can organize your

talks,

summaries of those papers, on what you've read.

I'm Cal Newport, and this is a deep questions habit tune up mini episode.

The format of course is one in which I take voice questions from readers asking about how they can tune up their productivity habits

in this moment where their professional lives are increasingly

disrupted. Thank you everyone who has subscribed to the podcast that does help the rankings, and

the rankings help other people discover the podcast.

And thank you to everyone who has left a rating or a review that helps convince people who come across the

podcast that it might be worth listening to. What I'm trying to a little bit more

of is actually read some of these reviews on air as a way of thinking.

Reviewer, so here is a recent five-star review from Colton.

Colton says, I love Cal Newport, I've read his read his books his blog but deep questions may be my favorite yet I dwell a lot I

I dwell in a lot of the productivity hack optimization world for better or for worse and

Cal is head and shoulders above anything else his advice is practical easy to implement and most important for me

Effective

Colton goes on but I do appreciate it that type of review does make a big difference. So Colton, my hat is tipped to you. Now remember if you want to submit your own voice questions for the Habit Toenup mini episode. You can do so at

speakpipe.com slash Cal Newport it's easy to do you can record straight out of

your browser and then I review those to decide what to put into the show.

All right, so let's get rolling.

Our first question is from Dean, who attempts to one up my frequent reference to the

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