I'm Calum report and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries for my readers about

work, technology, and the deep life.

So the exciting news kicking off today's episode of the podcast is that we have new questions. I sent out a survey to my email list last week soliciting new questions for the show and got back a lot of really good queries.

This is the first time we have updated the questions since July if you can believe it. In July I sent out the

last survey link to my email list asking for questions. I got over 700 questions back then

and they were so good that I had been trying to get through

them all before I solicited new queries. But there was just too many of them and it was taking

too long and I think at this point

it's becoming increasingly strange for me to be tackling questions such as hey cow what's

your advice for a deep 4th of July it's just not timely anymore. So I solicit new questions, we got a great new batch,

they're really smart. They also react to some degree to the stuff we've been talking about all

summer, so I think that really also adds to their quality so I am

excited for that if you want to contribute questions of course sign up for my

mailing list at cal Newport.com that is where I send out these surveys I

am not going to wait so long to do it next time because I do like the

questions being timely. So within six weeks or so I'll probably solicit more. So sign up for that

mailing list if you haven't already done so. So we have a really good show today. We're going to

tackle these brand new questions. I'll do a backstage pass segment so you can

get a peek into my own struggles and attempts to live a deeper life. We also will have, I think this is also exciting.

Our very first paid sponsor of the Deep Questions Podcast.

So we'll be getting to that later as well.

Before we start the show, though, let's do our review of the week.

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