The show about living and working deeply in an increasingly distracted world.

Here are my deep work HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse, who are coming up to a milestone,

a random milestone for the show, but one nonetheless, 10 million downloads.

Really? Yeah. Wow. We'll be there in a month or so. That's a lot.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know. These numbers are kind of arbitrary, but as someone who's on my publishing

team, they needed updated numbers for internal, whatever, because my book, I was sitting along

the numbers. And they said, that's a lot of zeros. So we're adding, we're about to add a new zero

to our list of downloads. Wow. Little known fact, podcasts monetize at about $10 per

download. So we've made a hundred million dollars off of this show. That's how it works.

Oh, well, anyways, I saw something. I saw something in the newspaper recently that

was doing what we could think of as a reality check on some predictions I've been making.

And I think it's good for us to hold ourselves accountable. So I wanted to load this up real quick.

I saw this in my hometown paper, the Washington Post. And this was, I don't know, a week or two ago

that I saw this. I've loaded it on the screen. So if you're if you're watching this at youtube.com,

slash calendar, port media, this is episode 236. You'll see this on the screen, but I'll narrate it

for those who are listening. It was a cover article actually in the paper version, the business

section of the paper version of the paper. And the headline is, America's offices are now half

full. They may not get much fuller. It's based off new data about office occupancy. And then they

talked to some experts about what they think this means and what's going to come. This is a good

chance to hold myself accountable. So starting in May of 2020, I began making predictions about what

I thought was going to happen with remote work. And the trajectory of predictions was two full

early in the pandemic. In May of 2020, I had one prediction that I then refined as time went on.

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