Ep. 316: Weekly Templates

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The fall is the perfect time to tune up your productivity and organizational systems. With this in mind, in this episode, Cal discusses a tool he has long used in his own life but never discussed before in public: the weekly template. He then answers questions on the theme of personal productivity from listeners and reviews the books he read in August. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia Deep Dive: Weekly Templates [3:29] - How does Cal schedule his evening writing sessions? [26:08] - How can I leverage my current career capital to become an entrepreneur? [30:30] - How do I find time for non-urgent but interesting deep work? [35:59] - Is afternoon deep work possible? [39:16] - Can I use slow productivity to help prepare for a job interview? [45:49] - CALL: How do I not be reactionary during my busy season? [51:42] CASE STUDY: Using Cal’s toolkit while working in the Peace Corps [56:52] FINAL SEGMENT: The 5 Books Cal Read in August 2024 [1:06:05] 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/ Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba? Thanks to our Sponsors: This show is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/deepquestions zocdoc.com/deep notion.com/cal ladderlife.com/deep Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for the 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.
0:29.1	So I am back after our two-week hiatus in the Deep Work HQ here in Tacoma Park, Maryland, joined once again by my producer Jesse. Jesse, I don't know if you felt the same way I felt it was
0:34.2	weird not to be podcasting like to actually go through two weeks without the
0:39.2	rhythm of preping a script and talking about these things. It was like I was bursting with
0:44.6	useless knowledge about time blocking and discipline stacks. It was unusual.
0:54.0	It's good though. So it's good to be back anyway, so get back on our regular schedule.
0:58.0	We got a good show today.
0:59.0	I'm going straight old school technical with our deep dive going to talk about a element of my own
1:05.9	routine that I don't think I've talked about before. We're gonna get deep on that.
1:08.8	We got some technical questions to get into the weeds. It's the fall. It's back to school. It's vacations are over.
1:14.8	People are thinking about getting their systems tuned up, so I want to get in the weeds
1:18.8	with this whole episode. And then in the final segment we will do the books I read in August.
1:25.0	Jesse I wanted to mention first before we get into it though my latest sort of quiet
1:29.8	rebellion against the world of the ubiquitous digital.
1:32.8	What's that?
1:33.8	I bought a new everyday watch.
1:35.8	We're not on camera now, but I can show it to you.
1:39.1	It's a Zen 105 without the UTC complication for those who care about such things.
1:44.0	It's an automatic mechanism.
1:46.0	So no bits, no electricity, no batteries, it harvest the movement of my arm. Now I've been wearing this thing every day
1:54.9	for three weeks, haven't touched it, right? In the sense I haven't touched this
1:58.6	knob, haven't wound it, haven't adjusted it, and I'm within two and a half minutes still of the correct time.
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