Episode 381: TMBA381: A Conversation with Cal Newport
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/calnewport/ If you are anything like Dan and Ian, then you have likely spent years geeking out on the writings of this week's guest.
Cal Newport is a computer science professor, and he has been operating a blog on his website since 2007. He has also been writing books since he was in college, and his most recent book is called Deep Work, which is about the benefits and practical steps to getting more done in the internet age.
This interview covers a wide range of subjects, including distributed algorithms at the extremes, why Cal uses walking to enhance his productivity, and why creativity is more workmanlike than most people realize.
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to really loving your working life, we've got to change this idea that it's all about figuring stuff out in advance and then acting on it. |
| 0:07.4 | It's almost always action, and the action leads to the insights and the developments and the satisfaction. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey, podcast listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now, |
| 0:21.2 | in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to |
| 0:26.3 | grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do |
| 0:32.1 | and download our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. Welcome to the TMBA podcast. I really hope you're |
| 0:47.5 | going to enjoy today's show because I had a blast talking with this week's guest. |
| 0:52.7 | My name is Cal Newport. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm a computer science professor, and I write about the impact of technology on our work and our lives. |
| 1:01.3 | Now, for those of you who haven't geeked out on Cal as much as I have, I just want to fill |
| 1:05.6 | you in a little bit on his background because we're going to reference a lot of his work |
| 1:09.4 | during our conversation. And, of course, we're going to include everything on our show notes, which we're going to reference a lot of his work during our conversation. |
| 1:11.7 | And of course, we're going to include everything on our show notes, which we're going to |
| 1:15.2 | upload at tropicalmBA.com slash Cal Newport. |
| 1:19.0 | Now, Cal also has a blog at CalNewport.com, which he started way back in 2007. |
| 1:25.5 | And he's been writing books since the time he was a student in college. |
| 1:29.4 | His most recent book is called Deep Work, which is about the benefits and practical steps |
| 1:35.4 | to getting more done specifically in the internet age. So for those of you looking to get more |
| 1:41.1 | work done and do it with less stress. And honestly, just to be |
| 1:45.3 | more successful in your business and your careers, I highly suggest deep work. It's really |
| 1:50.8 | affected the way that I go about my day to day. Cal also wrote a book on career success |
| 1:57.4 | called So Good They Can't Ignore You. That book challenges this idea that's become popular recently that the most important thing for career |
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