Ep. 319: Reclaim Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Why can you never seem to find enough time to make progress on the non-urgent but important priorities that can move you closer to the ideal of the deep life? In this episode, Cal reviews three common “time destroyers,” and for each offers solutions to fight back. He then takes questions and calls from his listeners and ends with a discussion of Amazon and the bureaucracy mailbox. 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: Reclaim Your Time [3:43] - Is Agile compatible with slow productivity? [34:20] - How can I better structure my days as a master’s student with a job? [36:37] - How often and in what medium should I check my calendar? [42:43] - On days when I have no time, does reading for 20 minutes actually do anything? [46:52] - Will slow productivity make me less ambitious? [52:16] - CALL: Different types of Deep Work [58:04] CASE STUDY: A teacher’s shutdown ritual [1:03:55] CAL REACTS: A Bureaucracy Mailbox [1:10:24] Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at calnewport.com/slowGet a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba?aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio Thanks to our Sponsors: drinklmnt.com/deepgreenlight.com/deepexpressvpn.com/deepshopify.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.
0:20.0	So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:28.0	Jesse how long do we just spend on technical equipment issues in the studio.
0:34.0	35 to 40 minutes.
0:36.0	35 to 40 minutes, yeah.
0:38.0	And now, Jesse, you can't see it because we don't have video of the opening,
0:41.0	but Jesse is now talking into a diminutive
0:43.8	version of our mics. Fortunately we have multiple mics and multiple ways of
0:47.8	doing this but here's the secret kids if you're gonna to run a podcast studio.
0:54.0	There's a lot of equipment to do it professionally,
0:56.7	and the thing about equipment is that it breaks.
0:58.8	Once you say that's the theme of us running our studio
1:00.9	is that stuff just breaks. Well you have a really good
1:04.1	to hunch for it all because you have your Maker Lab so I look at it I'm like oh man you
1:08.8	look at it you have like a plan so yeah like I understand like what does what and what connects to what doesn't help us when it just stops working.
1:17.2	Like our lights which should work basically forever. What's our life in the studio?
1:23.0	Like a year and a half?
1:24.0	Yeah, like two years.
1:26.0	Yeah, I think we have our sound processor.
1:30.0	We use DBX 286 S sound processors before our sound board and one of them is just
1:37.2	stopped working and so we're bypassing that so I'm sure everyone is
1:42.4	noticing now in the hear Jesse's voice
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