I'm on a crusade to get the Air Force rid of 90 to 95% of the emails that are sent.

The only legit reason that I can think of for the other 5% to 10% of those emails is for asynchronous communication

from one side of the world to the other.

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

The idea here is simple.

I take voice questions from listeners asking about how to tune up their

productivity habits within the world of work a setting that has become increasingly disrupted in recent times.

Now I should say as I record this today this was the first day that I set out for my morning walk and put on a sweatshirt.

Which meant when I went back to the house to get that sweatshirt, I also got a thermus of coffee

to bring with me.

And so for me as a long time productive meditator,

as someone who likes to work while walking,

and someone who likes to drink coffee,

this is always a very important milestone for me that first day

where I can legitimately bring a hot drink with me as I do a thinking walk.

Gotta say, for me me I don't think that serious thinking can

really happen till it cools down. Deep work sometimes in the summer can feel

like a stretch a strain something I have to push myself to do but as soon as I hit that cool

hair this morning I was ready to ideate so again I don't know if it's I just

have an association from the school calendar.

I would, the college and ground school in New England, so I associate the beginning of the school year with cool weather and that's we start thinking again, or maybe it's just a fact that I can combine caffeine with ambulation.

Whatever it is, I'm in a good mood because we have a thinking climate back again.

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