Ep. 300: Hidden Technology Traps

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

There has been a lot of attention paid recently to the impact of technology like social media on the mental health of young people. But this is not the only technology trap lurking for this generation. In this episode, Cal talks about three subtle but significant ways in which our current technology culture is setting up young people for professional failure in the years ahead. He then provides some advice for resisting this fate. In addition to this discussion, he answers questions from the audience and reacts to one of the coolest examples of slow craft that he’s encountered in a long while.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: The Burnout Society [7:53]- How can I stop distraction relapses? [35:18]- How can I reduce my social media addiction without abandoning these technologies? [39:37]- How can I schedule deep work with a scattered class schedule? [44:29]- How should I reintroduce video games after a successful digital declutter? [47:14]- How do I apply Slow Productivity later in life? [51:04]- CALL: How to formulate a deep life when you’re young [54:41] CASE STUDY: Tweaking the time block planner [1:06:44] CAL REACTS: A Slow Reconstruction of an Ancient City [1:11:00]Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2023-cs-smartphone-research-report_final-for-web.pdf tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/ Thanks to our Sponsors: drinklmnt.com/deep cozyearth.com/cal expressvpn.com/deep mybodytutor.com Thanks 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 cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:31.6	So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse. Just a little bit of personal news I don't know if I mentioned this to you or not.
0:34.3	This would only make sense to people who understand the American academic system.
0:39.6	This is all nonsense to everyone else. But my promotion the full professor came through.
0:46.0	I didn't know you weren't a full professor. This is why we sweat over these things and no
0:50.5	one understands. What were you before?
0:53.0	Associate Professor.
0:55.0	Ah.
0:56.0	So the American system, okay, this is not that interesting.
0:58.5	The American system, when you get hired as a 10-year track professor, you start as an assistant professor and that's without
1:03.6	tenure. The next rank is associate professor. Typically though not always that goes
1:09.2	hand-in-hand with 10-year. So you get promoted to associate professor with tenure. So if you see an
1:13.6	American professor, a professor at American University, say they're an associate
1:17.7	professor. That means they've gotten tenure, which is sort of the hard hurdle.
1:21.1	Later in your career, you can go up for full professor, which is the of the hard hurdle. Later in your career you can go up for full professor which is the final rank you can get to.
1:26.4	So if you can think of it as going to associate professor is based in part on what you've done
1:34.8	but also like you're still your potential academically okay you know I've done good stuff and I'm on a trajectory to do
1:39.8	important stuff in my field full professor is almost almost all retrospective. You have to, you're
1:44.1	saying here's what I have done as an academic and that's being judged to see if it's sufficient
1:48.4	to move to the full rank. So they don't, it's confusing because in the American system you don't use the word full in the title you just use professor
1:57.2	So in America if someone is in an academic context called you know know, Professor Miller.
2:03.0	That means they're a full professor.
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