Ep. 74: Habit Tune-Up: Taming Trello

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Self-improvement, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Below are the topics covered in today's mini-episode (with timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.- Spending too much time on Trello. [8:47]- Reducing instant messenger use. [18:33]- The inflexibility of time blocking. [27:30]- Finishing a thesis on time. [34:32]- Working deeply during a coup. [37:33]Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions, have it tune up mini episode.
0:20.9	The format of these mini episodes should be well known to you by now.
0:25.3	We take voice questions from my listeners where we get into the nitty gritty details of
0:31.5	tuning up the type of habits we like to talk about on this show.
0:38.0	As for quick announcements, well you might imagine they involve my book, but the good
0:43.1	news is that book comes out on Tuesday, so pretty soon you will not have to keep hearing
0:48.1	so much about it.
0:50.3	The main quick announcement about the book is that we have scheduled a live event for
0:56.6	Thursday, March 4th.
0:59.9	It is being sponsored by the Politics and Pros bookstore here in DC.
1:04.6	When I launched a digital minimalism, I did so with a big event at their physical bookstore.
1:09.0	We had a standing room only crowd.
1:10.6	It was a lot of fun.
1:13.2	We of course can't do that this year, so they're hosting a virtual event, which means you
1:17.1	can attend no matter where you are in the world.
1:19.6	The event will be a conversation between me and Jason Fried.
1:24.8	I talk about Jason in deep work.
1:26.4	I talk about Jason in a world without email.
1:29.3	We as well known as a co-founder of Base Camp, which used to be called 37 Signals.
1:34.3	It's a co-author of many best-selling books on radical thinking about how to change
1:39.2	and improve work, including rework and remote as a book out called, it doesn't have to
1:45.2	be crazy at work.
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