Ep. 332: Jesse Takeover!

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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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 - Who are Cal’s “must read” writers? [6:03]- Does Cal think he can get better at writing? [13:37]- When does Cal find time for academic papers? [24:09]- How do you get unstuck? [26:44]- How should students pick a college? [34:04]- What is Cal’s shutdown ritual? [43:00]- Does Cal think about retirement? [48:00]- CAL REACTS: Elon and Twitter [54:30]- Is cal still using his ReMarkable? [1:03:17]- What’s Cal’s post-mortem on his latest book? [1:08:10] FINAL SEGMENT: Checking in on Cal’s New Year Plan [1:26:10] 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?washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/see-how-elon-musks-online-audience-dwarfs-donald-trumps/?itid=hp_world-biz-tech_p006_f008 Thanks to our Sponsors: notion.com/caldrinklmnt.com/deepblinkist.com/deepzbiotics.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.
0:22.2	So I'm here on my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:26.3	This is our episode that airs on the same week as Christmas vacation.
0:31.3	Traditionally, our numbers are down that week because people are traveling.
0:35.4	So Jesse and I decided to have some fun with today's
0:39.1	episode. If you're listening and you jump over to the YouTube feed, you'll see we are dressed for
0:44.0	the occasion. We are wearing literally the finest Christmas costumes that $22 at CVS can buy.
0:51.9	So I'm very impressed by how we look.
0:54.5	I'll say, Jesse, seeing ourselves on the monitor now really makes me happy I spent all
0:59.3	that time earning a doctorate and theoretical computer science from MIT and a full
1:03.1	professorship from Georgetown.
1:04.7	Really getting my full money's worth from that as I sit here with flashing Christmas
1:08.2	lights and a Santa hat on.
1:09.8	It makes it.
1:10.8	It makes it juicy.
1:11.7	I like it.
1:12.2	Yeah.
1:12.7	Well, I guess I'm really leaning into the sort of respect and maturity of my social standing here.
1:18.7	But here's what we decided to do.
1:20.8	Jesse takeover.
1:22.5	So the bulk of the episode is going to be Jesse asking the questions that he has always wished that
1:28.1	someone would ask me on the show. I don't know how many hundreds of these episodes you've
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