#363 — Knowledge Work

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Cal Newport about our use of information technology and the cult of productivity. They discuss the state of social media, the "academic-in-exile effect," free speech and moderation, the effect of the pandemic on knowledge work, slow productivity, the example of Jane Austen, managing up in an organization, defragmenting one's work life, doing fewer things, reasonable deadlines, trading money for time, finding meaning in a post-scarcity world, the anti-work movement, the effects of artificial intelligence on knowledge work, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation.
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0:29.0	don't run ads on the podcast and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.
0:34.0	So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Well, there's a lot going on in the world.
0:47.0	Iran recently attacked Israel to minimal effect happily. I think there's one casualty at this point.
0:58.0	Anyway, there'll be more to say about that soon enough. I will wait until I can do a proper
1:04.0	podcast on the topic of Iran and what to do about it. Today I'm speaking with Cal Newport.
1:12.1	Cal is a professor of computer science. Today I'm speaking with Cal Newport.
1:13.0	Cal is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University,
1:17.0	where he is also a founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics.
1:21.0	Cal is also a New York Times best-selling author and a frequent contributor to the New Yorker.
1:26.8	He also hosts the Deep Questions Podcast.
1:30.3	And Cal's most recent book is Slow Productivity,
1:33.4	The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout.
1:36.4	And we talk about the book today.
1:38.8	We generally discuss information technology
1:41.1	and the cult of productivity.
1:44.2	We talk about the state of social media,
1:46.6	the academic in exile effect,
1:49.1	free speech in moderation,
1:51.1	the effect of the pandemic on knowledge work.
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