I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune-up mini episode.

The format of these mini episodes is straightforward. I answer voice questions from

listeners that dive into the nitty gritty details of tuning up the type of habits we'd like to talk about here on deep questions.

Before we get going let's do quick announcements.

I got a new phone. My old phone died and so he ordered a new one. It's an iPhone mini I guess, a small one.

Anyways, the reason I'm telling this is that I get this new phone and the other day we were on a family trip we were going out to a ski resort and I needed to send an email to someone. I remembered something like, oh I need to send them an email.

And I was trying to set up or log into Gmail on my phone and there was some sort of issue with the two-factor authentication.

I don't really know how it works.

Essentially Google said, huh, this looks suspicious because it's a new device so

we're going to send a note to your phone. We're going to send a note to your phone

so that you can you know approve that it's really you except for I was

holding the phone the new device was the phone and the thing wasn't coming

through I don't know I'm sure I messed it up but the long and the short of

it is I couldn't get email to work on my phone and I was thinking I'll fix it when I got home but then I had

this epiphany wait a second I shouldn't fix it I should just not have email on my

phone I have a book coming out in March called A World Without Email.

What an appropriate preparation for that title to go the time between now and that book without being able to check email anywhere except for when I'm

sitting down at my computer.

So I thought that was neat.

Now here's the thing, I should clarify, this book is not about hacks like this.

It's not advice for checking your inbox less.

You don't have email on your phone,

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