Ep. 288: Confronting Your Phone

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Self-improvement, Technology, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We’ve become so used to our phones in our lives that we’ve stopped realizing how arbitrary and unusual the content we’re watching really has become. In this episode, Cal looks closer at what we’re really spending time doing on our phones, then provides step-by-step instructions for healing this relationship. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvoVideo from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmediaDeep Dive: Confronting Your Phone [4:30]- What does Cal think about Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves To Death”? [28:35]- Can you pursue high quality leisure after a day filled with deep work? [33:14]- Can commercial breaks be used for high quality leisure? [37:24]- Will digital minimalism work in an age of augmented reality? [40:34]- How can a full time YouTuber practice digital minimalism? [46:53]-CALL: How to share content online? [52:38]CASE STUDY: Cost-benefit analysis of technology usage [1:00:39] CAL REACTS: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Search for Depth [1:06:43]Links:twitter.com/explore/tabs/trendinginstagram.com/explore/tags/popular/?hl=entiktok.com/foryou?lang=ennewcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-consolations-of-fantasyUse this link to preorder a signed copy of “Slow Productivity”: peoplesbooktakoma.com/preorder-slow-productivity/ FREE download excerpt and 2 Bonuses for “Slow Productivity”: calnewport.com/slow Thanks to our Sponsors: ladderlife.com/deepmybodytutor.comrhone.com/calmintmobile.com/deepThanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for slow productivity music, and Mark Miles for mastering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in a distracted world.
0:28.4	So if you're new here, I'm a computer science professor who also writes about the various ways that technology impacts how we live, work, and relate with each other. On this show I give concrete advice
0:35.1	about the big ideas I tackle in my writing. I'm here in my deep work HQ in sunny
0:42.3	Tacoma Park, Maryland.
0:45.0	It's snowing slash raining simultaneously outside.
0:48.0	That's an inside joke for those here in the studio.
0:51.0	Speaking of which, I'm joined as always by my producer Jesse I guess
0:56.8	it's nice outside I don't know it's snowing which is nice but it's also
0:59.8	raining at the same time so yeah it's not not too too cold. But somehow that's worse.
1:03.7	Hey I wanted to check in real quickly on my book, Slow Productivity, which comes out in
1:08.0	March. The pre-order campaign is continuing to go well. We're getting close to pre-order numbers. You know, I
1:14.8	think we're starting to catch some attention among the sales staff and some of the
1:19.2	book industry. So this is all great. So if you like this show and you're you I talk about, I know you'll like this book.
1:25.6	So if you're going to buy the book anyways, please consider pre-ordering it.
1:28.8	Here's how it works.
1:29.8	It's actually really simple.
1:31.6	You buy a copy of slow productivity wherever you want.
1:34.7	Amazon, you pre-order it from your local bookstore, you pre-order it from our
1:40.7	local bookstore to get a signed copy. You can find out more about that
1:43.8	at CalNewport.com. So wherever you buy it. And then you simply just email your
1:48.2	receipt to slow at pre-order bonuses.com.
1:55.0	So then we have your receipt and your email address.
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