Money Talks: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For this edition of Money Talks: Are you feeling trapped in Zoom/Teams/Slack purgatory? Author Cal Newport’s book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout has a way forward. Host Emily Peck speaks with him about how the digital office became an “invisible factory” and how you can take back control of your working life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Money Talks and Slate Money where we chat with brilliant and |
| 0:14.3 | interesting people. I'm Emily Peck, I'm a markets correspondent at Axios and |
| 0:18.4 | co-host of Slate Money and I'm here today with Cal Newport. |
| 0:21.9 | Cal Welcome to Money Talks. Cal, welcome to Money Talks. |
| 0:23.5 | Emily, thanks for having me. |
| 0:24.8 | He's a contributing writer at the New Yorker |
| 0:26.8 | where he writes a column called Office Space. |
| 0:29.2 | Cal's latest book is called Slow Productivity, |
| 0:31.6 | The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout. |
| 0:33.9 | I mean, how would you describe it to people who have not read it? |
| 0:36.9 | Well, it's an answer to a question that became more important for a lot of people, |
| 0:41.5 | I think, during the pandemicemic especially people who worked office jobs. |
| 0:45.2 | Is there a way to think about productivity that could both support good work that also |
| 0:51.5 | doesn't completely exhaust you that doesn't impede on all other |
| 0:56.1 | aspects of your life can we in other words reform the very notion of productivity itself |
| 1:00.0 | to be something sustainable for these type of jobs. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, it somehow inspired me to both work less and more. |
| 1:08.0 | Can't wait to get into it. |
| 1:10.0 | Think you know Disney Plus, Your Me. Think You're missing half the story because we have lots for grown-ups only which is |
| 1:18.8 | why Disney Plus has parental controls so the kids don't see them in epic dramas like FX's show gun, the |
| 1:26.0 | in acclaimed shows like FX is The Bear, or the, in award-winning movies like Poor Things. |
| 1:31.5 | I must go punch that baby. |
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