On Cal Newport, and this is a deep questions, have it tune up many episodes.

For those who are new to this podcast, these many episodes are when I take voice questions

straight from my listeners, we get into some of the nitty gritty details involving the

general ideas we'd like to talk about on this show to find out about submitting your

own voice questions go to calnewport.com slash podcast.

Now this should be a fun challenge today.

I have been doing quite a few interviews that have all stacked up together, and I am

interleaving the recording of this podcast in between these interviews, so just to give

you a glimpse behind the book publicity curtain, I started this morning with a hour-long

appearance on Iowa Public Radio.

I had to jump right from that into a 45 minute interview with a major magazine.

I grabbed some lunch, then did an hour-long online book club with a company out of London.

I am now recording this in the 15 minute window between that book club and an interview

for the BBC, which itself runs right up against an interview on Seattle Public Radio after

which I will then return to record the end of this episode.

So now to life is a book author doing publicity, get used to talking quite a lot.

So actually this is a nice relief because I can choose the questions here, and I can choose

topics that don't have to do with the same questions I've been hearing all day long,

and I can take my time with the answer.

So in a day where I have to spend a lot of time talking about ideas, this is probably

this episode I'm recording right now is probably my favorite of the talking that I'm doing.

So thank you for giving me that opportunity to at least have some control over what I

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