The format of these mini episodes should be known to you by now.

I take voice questions from my listeners where we try to dive into some of the nitty gritty

details involved in tuning up their productivity habits.

Looking at my question list today, we have some questions about auto scheduling meetings,

so how do you time block?

If other people can auto schedule meetings on your calendar, we talk about my advice to

hire yourself as your own assistant, how to deal with really short tasks, we do a little

bit of digital minimalism here, there's someone with a cell phone habit, and a teacher

who's worried about losing their deep work muscles over the summer break, so this should

be good.

If you want to submit your own questions, you can go to calnewport.com slash podcast.

There you can learn about submitting the voice questions for the mini episodes and the

written questions for the main episodes.

All right, so without further ado, I want to get started with this week's episode, but

first, as always, we should take a moment to say thanks to some of the sponsors that make

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