I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries for my readers about work, technology, and the deep life.

I hope you enjoyed last week's episode with guest host David Epstein.

I have a few more guest host lined up for later this fall. I do enjoy bringing on other areas of expertise. I also like picking the brain of these expert guests host to learn more about how they got where they got and how they actually do their work.

I don't plan, however, to have too many of the guest host episodes, maybe at most once or occasionally twice a month.

The core of this show remains me answering questions.

Of course, any feedback you have about the show or the format please feel free to send it to

interesting at calnewport.com speaking of the show I also want to mention that I

now have my video set up completely ready to go. The idea is I'm going to start recording a few of the

interesting or key answers from these episodes so I can post them to be watched

online. This way you can actually see my pleasant face as I talk with

some of these answers and perhaps more importantly be able to share some individual answers

with people you think might be interested in hearing them without having to send them the entire episode.

Now I could be doing that in today's episode. The only reason why I am not starting videotaping select questions today is just I don't have enough time today

But look out for that soon

Deep questions video will be coming.

All right, I don't want to delay.

You know the drill on the administrative details.

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All right, enough of that. Let's get rolling with the questions this week and we will start as always with

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