I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, episode 65.

I have no quick announcements this week, but we do have a good show. The deep dive is back.

We'll be doing a deep dive segment on the question of, is productivity good or bad bad so that should be interesting. I should

add by the way my current timeline for getting these videos of the deep dives

accessible is February.

So within the next few weeks, we should soon have videos of all my deep dives

and some key questions being posted online.

Stay tuned for that.

We also, of course, have a lot of good questions that have been asked in our categories of work technology and the

deep life including a question about work that falls between deep and

shallow psychodellics, and convincing friends and family who do not like

self-help that maybe they should listen to some self-help. As always, I appreciate the questions if you want to find out how to submit them go to

CalNewport.com slash podcast and I have the instructions there.

Also of course I also appreciate the subscriptions, ratings, and in particular

reviews. I read all the reviews of the podcast and make me happy and it helps spread the

alert. I believe I just used the word lurd there so you can tell I really am a

professional broadcaster. All right so we got a good show. Before we get going

though let's take a brief moment to thank one of the sponsors that makes

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