I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.

I'm here in my deep work, H.Q.

joined, as always, about my producer, Jesse.

Jesse, we got a good show.

I'm going to revisit what we talked about last week and go deeper on my advice.

We've got some good questions.

And then because I can't

help myself, we're going to do another AI tech corner. Sounds good. It's not always within the

flow of the advice we're giving, but I've just been reading and thinking and talking to a lot of

people about AI recently. And I don't have anyone to talk to about this. So I'm holding you my

audience hostage to hear gory details. Today I'm holding you my audience hostage to hear

gory details. Today I'm going to talk about what does it mean when you hear the AI companies

like Open AI say, oh, we can, our new models can reason, right? And they're really

obfuscating what that means. Like, how do they reason? And they're always like, we're giving

a more time to think. Like, what does that mean? And they're always like, we're giving a more time to think.

Like, what does that mean?

I'm going to break that down in the tech corner in the show.

I'm going to get in the weeds of, like, technically, what's actually happening because

for some reason they don't want us to know.

All right, so we got a good show.

Before we get into it, it's been a, you brought this up here. back when my book's low productivity had come out more recently, we like to do a little update to the beginning of the shows of honors that had won or achievements it had accomplished.

And, well, I haven't done one in a while, but we have one here, which I would say, and you correct me if I'm wrong, the highest honor, would you say in your opinion this book has yet one?

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