Ep. 348: Manage Your Time in 5 Minutes a Day

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Cal has been writing about time management for a *long* time. In this episode, he returns to a chapter from a book he wrote twenty years ago that is titled “manage your time in 5 minutes a day.” He revisits his old advice to see what he thinks still works and what needs updating. He then answers listener questions and returns to the tech corner to get back in the weeds on a topic involving AI. Find out more about Done Daily at DoneDaily.com! 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: Manage Your Time in 5 Minutes a Day [3:11] - How specific should I make my Quarterly Plan? [27:28] - Does reading Mangas count as reading? [29:30] - How do I store information related to tasks? [34:14] - How do I speak better at work in spontaneous conversations? [38:31] - Are paper and pencil calendars suitable to use if my work is in two different time zones? [45:42] CALL: Utilizing coaching [51:38] CALL: Embracing boredom [57:48] TECH CORNER: RL vs. LLM [1:08:04] 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: grammarly.com/podcast cozyearth.com/deep oracle.com/deepquestions expressvpn.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 Kyle Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:23.4	I'm here in my deep work HQ.
0:26.0	I joined, as always, by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.7	What did you have going on when it came in today, Jesse?
0:30.5	It looked like golf.
0:32.3	Is that what you were watching?
0:33.4	Yep, golf was on.
0:34.4	It's master's time, right?
0:36.2	No cell phones allowed at the Masters.
0:38.6	Is that for, like, everyone attending?
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:42.0	Oh, interesting.
0:42.9	Yeah.
0:43.0	If you're going to the Masters, you've got to put it in a bag or something when you get in.
0:46.7	Oh, I love that.
0:47.7	That's cool.
0:48.1	So you're just like outside in nature, watching people play golf.
0:54.4	So they have, like, stretchers, I assume, for when people pass out from boredom.
1:00.6	Just bodies falling.
1:02.3	But they got to do it old school where they, you know, I'll meet you at whole four T-box
1:06.3	in two hours.
1:07.6	I like it.
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