I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in a distracted world.

So if you're new to deep questions, I am a professor of computer science who also writes about the ways that technology impacts the different ways that we live and work

and relate to each other. And here on the show is where I give concrete advice derived from the big ideas that I write about.

So I'm recording today for my deep work HQ in Tacoma Park, Maryland.

Joined as always by my producer, Jesse, I figured, you know, not everyone has been around for a long time.

They haven't been deep questions people for a long time.

So it made sense to try to explain to people more exactly what we're doing here.

Yeah.

But we did get, and you and I were talking about this earlier, we did get an email recently

that I think represents the opposite of being new to this show.

In fact, it represents probably having listened to this show too long,

but I appreciated it.

Someone sent me a message and said,

here would be the apotheos of the Deep Question experience

would be Jesse Skeleton interviewing

Brandon Sanderson about name of the wind and if you know what that means

then you've been on this you've been listening to a show probably too long.

You're a true fan.

True fan.

True fan.

And if you don't know what that means, again, as I always say congratulations. So that's what we do here. If you

want to watch what you hear go to the deep life.com slash listen this is

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