I'm Cal Newport, and this is In-Depth, a semi-regular series in which I talk to interesting people about the quest to cultivate a deep life.

Today's episode is brought you by our presenting sponsor, reclaim.AI.

This is a product I'm actually really excited about.

I mean, they use the word deep work when they describe it.

So I'll come back a little later to tell you more about that.

But what I want to tell you about right now is today's guest, the one and only Mr. Tim Ferriss.

Tim, of course, rocketed to prominence with his 2007 book, The Four Hour Work Week,

which basically redefined my generation's relationship with work and meaning and the possibilities

for building an interesting life, a major influence on my work for sure.

He followed that up with a series of other massive bestsellers, including the four-hour

body, the four-hour chef, tools of titans, and tribes of mentors.

Most people probably know him today for the podcast he started right around the time he was

wrapping up the four-hour series.

It's called The Tim Ferriss Show.

And there's one of the first big business interview sort of self-development podcast out there.

Some people have called him the Oprah a podcast.

And I see why.

This show has been wildly successful.

It's surpassed more than a billion downloads.

Tim has interviewed countless major figures from Jane Goodall to Jerry Seinfeld to LeBron James

and his biggest get of all, of course, myself.

More recently, Tim put out a card game.

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