I'm Cal Newport and this is deep questions the show about living in working deeply in a

distracted world. So if you're new here, I'm a computer science professor and digital theorist who writes

about the ways that technology intersects, how we live, how we work, and how we relate to each other.

Here on this show, I give concrete advice inspired by the big ideas that I write about.

So we got a good show coming up,

I have a deep dive I'm interested in,

we got some questions and a final segment

about a new New Yorker article of mine. First however I wanted to talk about my new book.

So I'm here in my Deepork HQ with my producer Jesse Jesse. My new book book slow productivity which comes out in March 5th is available for

pre-order yeah exciting if you were thinking about buying this book anyways, and if you're on the

fence, let me tell you, if you like this show, you like the book. Right, it's my eighth book,

I've done this before, I think you'll like it. If you're on the fence I just wanted to make a direct plea or a direct ask I should say is I consider

pre-ordering it for technical reasons that's useful for the book. A lot of the big retailers

look at the pre-order numbers to figure out how many orders to copy and how many

orders they copy sets the tone for how much they promote it. Also the pre-order numbers really help with the

bestseller list. So if you're thinking about buying it, I guess that's my ask is consider

pre-ordering it. There's a few bonuses if you do away from me to thank you.

So if you pre-order the book, you're going to get access to a audio commentary that I'm putting together.

Every chapter of the book has an original audio commentary

for me where I go deeper into the ideas of that chapter, tell you a little bit

about how I wrote it, what didn't make it into the book, but I still think it's

important.

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