Healing Our Broken Brains
Offline with Jon Favreau
Crooked Media
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Cal Newport, computer scientist and author of Deep Work, joins Offline to explain why we need a revolution in cognitive fitness, and how AI is going to get in the way. Cal and Jon explore how smartphones and AI are destroying our ability to concentrate, how our attention spans are a third of what they were just twenty years ago, and how we can practice “deep work” in our constantly interrupted digital environment.
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