Slow Productivity and Anticipating Consequences | Cal Newport PT 1
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the first half of this two-part conversation, Ryan talks with computer science professor and bestselling author, Cal Newport. They discuss the facade of hustle culture, understanding what really moves the needle in your process, Cal’s latest book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, and more.
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on the theory of distributed systems, while his general-audience writing explores intersections of culture and technology. He is the author of eight books, including Slow Productivity, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Newport is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep Questions podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient |
| 0:16.4 | Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:24.8 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, |
| 0:30.1 | well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful. |
| 0:33.7 | With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them |
| 0:37.3 | become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:43.0 | Setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, |
| 0:45.7 | something to meditate on, something to think on, |
| 0:48.6 | something to leave you with, to journal about whatever |
| 0:51.3 | it is you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast. I have this very distinct memory. This would have been late 2014, early |
| 1:07.0 | 2015. I just moved to Austin. I'd finish the obstacles away. I was living in East Austin, and I was a fan of this guy whose |
| 1:16.7 | blog I'd read for a long time and I got his phone number from a mutual friend and I said, hey, |
| 1:21.0 | can I ask you some advice? And it turned out he was a fan of me and I said, hey, can I ask you some advice? |
| 1:23.3 | And it turned out, he was a fan of me. |
| 1:24.7 | And so I said, hey, did you mind hopping on the phone? |
| 1:27.4 | I thought I'd kick something around with you. |
| 1:29.5 | And he was like, I had some questions for you. |
| 1:31.2 | Anyways, I remember I went for walk in Bogie Creek Park over in East |
| 1:34.4 | Austin and I must have walked maybe an hour or so and I got on the phone with this guy named Cal Newport. We were both young. I think we'd both done one or two books at this time. |
| 1:44.4 | We could have maybe seen each other as rivals. We could have been threatened by each other, |
| 1:49.6 | but I just remember the generosity that he took the time to kick things around on the phone with me and I was probably just thinking out loud |
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