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

Now if you're one of the many new listeners to this podcast you discovered it through

my publicity tour for a world without email let me explain briefly how this works. I do two

episodes a week, a main episode on Mondays and a habit tune up mini episode on Thursdays. This is

a habit tune up mini episode during the Monday episodes. I answer written questions from my

listeners on a wide variety of topics. We get into work stuff. We also get into big ideas about

technology and we get into more philosophical discussions about the deep life and making the

most out of life. It's a wide-ranging array of topics and then in these habit tune up mini episodes

they're shorter and we do voice questions, right? So listeners call in and leave their questions

and they tend to be more on nitty-gritty details sort of tactics and habits of the type of things we

talk about on this show, right? So that's the format. I'm evolving the format by the way. I mean one

thing I've been thinking about is as we get nearer to the pandemic winding down to something much

more manageable, I want to set up another mic or two in my studio, start to have some more people

in studio. I did a in studio recording recently with Lex Friedman and I hadn't done an in studio

in a little while and I miss it. It's really nice. It's really nice to be there with the other person

and what I was thinking, not so much having guests come in to be interviewed but having a regular

stable of a small number of people I know and like around here are very smart who can come in and we

can we can go back and forth, we can debate, we can get into relevant topics of the day that overlap

what I write about, they can explain to me really basic internet culture stuff that I don't understand

like what a TikTok is. Anyways I thought that'd be fun and also just a place to

get people to come in and hang out, we could podcast, could have writers come through, we could

you know shoot debris come with ideas, have computer scientists come through, we can work in the

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