Ep. 353: Summer Schedules

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summer is here. It’s time to slow down. In this episode, Cal discusses his radically simplified summer schedule and then suggests you similarly inject some “seasonality” into your life, offering tips for finding a slower gear without tanking your job. He then answers listener questions and reacts to the most important AI article that you likely missed last week. 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: Summer Schedules [5:25] - How should I structure my summer vacation with a significant injury? [27:40]- How do I learn the secrets to publication if the faculty doesn’t know I exist? [32:10]- Should I even attempt long-term content or is it too hard? [33:31]- How can I develop a deliberate practice for crafting narratives for technical documents? [44:33]- Is there an alternative to formal education to improve quantitative skills? [45:13] CASE STUDY: A father balances his different roles [47:40] CALL #1: Finding a side hustle [51:16] CALL #2: College student wondering the tips to focus better [56:02] CAL REACTS: Is the AI boom slowing? [1:07:01] 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?wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-delaying-the-rollout-of-its-flagship-ai-model-f4b105f7 Thanks to our Sponsors: grammarly.com/podcastvanta.com/deepquestionsshopify.com/deepcozyearth.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
0:17.1	in a distracted world.
0:23.5	I'm here in my deep work HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:28.8	Maybe really our first summer day we've recorded in the sense that it's 80 something degrees.
0:34.6	Is it that hot?
0:35.2	It's going up to like 87 or something like this.
0:37.9	I'm getting a new air conditioner installed in our downstairs this weekend.
0:41.9	Yeah, because I remember you did it in the upstairs.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:44.2	And this new one, I believe if I'm understanding the marketing copy properly from Carrier is self-aware.
0:51.3	That's how advanced the technology now is in air conditioners.
0:55.0	Like the one we had is from like roughly 1976.
0:58.4	The one downstairs.
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.3	I mean, I think there's this, there's just like a relatively small guy in there with an ice
1:03.9	cube and a fan that he would just sort of wave it over it.
1:06.7	Then this new one is Skynet, as far as I can tell.
1:11.7	It's like computers and controls, and it's connected to the internet for God knows what reason.
1:15.6	I don't know what's going on with this thing.
1:16.8	How's the one upstairs doing?
1:18.3	It's doing pretty well.
1:19.5	So same, you buy it from the same provider?
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