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, I'm a computer science professor and digital theorist who writes about the intersection of technology and the way we live and work. on this show I give concrete advice about the big ideas I write about.

I'm recording today in the Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.

Jesse, once again, I continue to be happy

about the people showing up

for this pre-order campaign for the new book

Slow Productivity yeah the numbers are great I think it's it's catching attention

of people in the industry so thank you for that if you haven't pre-ordered and you're thinking

about it we put everything at one place cal newport.com slash slow the bonuses you can

get for pre-ordering are there links to pre pre-order are there, you can download a

free excerpt. If you want to pre-order a signed version from People's Book here in Tacoma Park,

there's a link to that, so just go to CalNewport.com slash Slo. And for all of

you who have pre-ordered thank you for supporting me

and the book an administrative point specific to our podcast we need more calls right Jesse yeah we do it's easy so if you go to I'm

throwing a lot of URLs at you so we'll put this in the show notes too. The people always say that Jesse. This is what what would happen.

All right, here's my question about podcasting industry question. A lot of podcasts,

they're constantly saying, put this in the show notes, put this in the show notes put this in the

show notes let's say that there was a law passed that said no show notes for like

one month but it really changed much are people reading the show notes?

They are.

Some of my favorite podcasts I do go to the show notes.

You do read the show notes, but you're not representative, I think, of normal people.

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