Ep. 360: One-Page Productivity

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Trying to stick to complicated time management systems without any breaks can eventually lead to burn out. But if you stop organizational efforts altogether, your life can become a stressful mess. In this episode, Cal taps the wisdom of an elite running coach to devise what he calls one-page productivity: a minimum time management system, meant to be run for limited periods to help you recharge, but that also maintains just enough organization that you can avoid disaster. He argues such maintenance modes should be an important part of any time management practice. Cal then answers listener questions and concludes by reviewing the books he read in June 2025.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Question, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.
0:23.1	I'm here in my deep work,
0:24.9	HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:27.6	Jesse, we live in a stupid swamp city.
0:30.1	Yeah.
0:30.2	I've never been, I don't think I've sweated more than I sweat
0:33.7	to try to go for a walk this afternoon.
0:35.9	It happens every summer.
0:37.3	It is brutal.
0:38.6	It is.
0:38.8	I think can we move the podcast, the Jocko Willink studio in San Diego?
0:43.8	San Diego is so nice.
0:44.9	So nice.
0:45.7	It's in his gym.
0:46.9	You can even wail on me a little bit in exchange.
0:50.1	I think that would be great.
0:51.1	I am.
0:51.6	I am excited.
0:52.4	My wife and I and some friends are going to see F1 tonight.
0:55.0	Oh, I just read a review about that in their New Yorker.
0:57.4	Oh, yeah, that was a positive.
0:58.3	I haven't read it yet.
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