Ep. 49: Organizing Massive Projects, Taming IM, and Exploring the Deep Life Canon

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions about organizing massive projects, taming IM, and elaborating the books I would include in the Deep Life Canon.To submit your own questions, sign up for my mailing list at calnewport.com. You can also submit audio questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/CalNewportPlease consider subscribing (which helps iTunes rankings) and leaving a review or rating (which helps new listeners decide to try the show).Here’s the full list of topics tackled in today’s episode along with the timestamps:DEEP DIVE: The Deep Reset, Part 1WORK QUESTIONS - The limits of deliberate practice? [12:09] - Getting started on massive projects. [20:11] - Social media and the dissemination of academic research. [25:04] - Digital time blocking. [31:59] - My opinion on GTD-style contexts. [35:50] - When a job requires social media use. [40:01] TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS - Taming IM. [42:13] - How to attend online classes. [50:08] - Breaking a YouTube addiction. [1:00:30] - Controlling heavy RSS use. [1:03:40] - On the phenomenology of technology. [1:06:31] DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS - Deciding when to give up on a book [1:12:25]. - Dealing with an overwhelming amount of advice. [1:14:05] - Living deeply in high school. [1:17:30] - The Deep Life Canon. [1:23:47]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. 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.
0:16.0	The show where I answer queries for my readers about work, technology,
0:20.0	and the deep life.
0:24.0	We'll start with quick announcements.
0:26.0	In this week's episode, I am trying a new opening segment that I call
0:32.0	Deep Dive. opening segment that I call deep dive. The idea is there are certain
0:36.8	topics that are interesting to this audience but are maybe too complex or too
0:42.0	general to be handled in the answer to a single
0:44.7	question. So I like the idea of using the opening of my shows to explore these
0:51.4	topics, maybe dedicating multiple episodes to exploring the topic like we did earlier this fall
0:57.0	when we discussed household productivity.
1:00.0	So we'll give this a try and see if we like it.
1:04.0	We will do our first deep dive segment today.
1:07.0	I am videotaping this segment.
1:10.0	My hope is I can then post online in one place and one playlist all of the
1:16.6	videos for a particular deep dive so that you can go back later and watch the
1:21.4	segments one after another.
1:22.6	So we'll see if we like this, we'll see if this works.
1:26.0	For our very first deep dive segment,
1:28.6	I want to tackle a topic that I mentioned briefly in the answer to a question in a recent podcast episode and that is the idea of the deep reset.
1:41.0	Now before I explain exactly what the deep reset is, let's back up and talk about the more general phenomenon of human nature that this idea responds to.
1:52.0	An idea that comes up frequently in theology and literature in philosophy is this
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