Ep. 56: Habit Tune-Up: Escaping Academic Twitter, Time Blocking During Vacation, and Making Time for Big Projects

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this mini-episode, I answer audio questions from listeners asking for advice about how best to tune-up their productivity and work habits in a moment of increased distraction and disruption.You can submit your own audio questions at speakpipe.com/calnewport.Here are the topics we cover: - Using task boards to plan big projects. [2:49] - Academic Twitter. [8:31] - Time block breaks + Workflowy vs Trello. [13:04] - Deep work while traveling. [19:46] - Setting aside time for big projects. [26:02]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.6	It's nice to get it right. I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions, habit tune up, mini episode.
1:27.0	The format of these mini episodes, as you know, is that I answer voice questions from my listeners where we dive into the nitty gritty details of tuning up their productivity habits.
1:41.0	Two quick announcements. Number one, we need more voice questions. I'm
1:47.8	actually running quite low on the questions I use for these many episodes.
1:51.4	This is your chance to cut to the front. I use for these many episodes.
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