Ep. 70: Habit Tune-Up: Getting Things Done During a Terrible, Isolating Pandemic
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cal Newport, and this is a deep question, have it tune up, mini episode. |
| 0:21.5 | The format of these mini episodes is straightforward. |
| 0:24.9 | I answer voice questions from my listeners about how to tune up their productivity habits. |
| 0:33.3 | If you want to find out how to submit your own questions, go to calnewport.com-podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Quick announcements. |
| 0:42.5 | I am finally able to release the details of the pre-order campaign for my upcoming book, |
| 0:48.6 | A World Without Email. |
| 0:50.8 | I have been talking about this book now for several weeks. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm very excited about it. |
| 0:55.4 | If you like this podcast, you will love this book. |
| 1:00.8 | Now, here's the thing about book launches pre-orders. |
| 1:04.1 | That is ordering the book before it comes out makes a really big difference. |
| 1:09.2 | Regardless of the format you ordered, and it really helps with things like |
| 1:13.4 | the first week sales numbers, which impact the best sellers list. |
| 1:17.6 | It impacts how many books, Amazon orders, it's important. |
| 1:22.6 | So if you are thinking about buying this book anyways, I would be very grateful if you |
| 1:27.4 | would consider pre-ordering it, so to help thank you for pre-ordering, typically authors |
| 1:32.3 | will have some sort of bonus or incentive, and I'm doing the same, but I really thought |
| 1:37.5 | what could I do? |
| 1:39.9 | What could I do that would be beyond the typical somewhat banal author pre-order bonus, |
| 1:45.7 | and I came up with this idea of the email academy. |
| 1:50.4 | So if you pre-order a world without email before March 2nd, when it comes out here in |
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