Ep. 238: The Joys of the Reading Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The reading life is a deep life. The screen-filled life can be primitive and exhausting. Which one do you want?

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

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Today’s Deep Question: Why is it important to read books? [7:23]

- Should I buy physical copies of books I enjoyed on my kindle? [30:45]
- How should I organize my notes when writing a non-fiction book? [34:38]
- How do I train myself to become a reader? [40:34]
- How should I build a library? [50:25]
- What does Cal think about Sam Bankman-Fried’s claim that books are worthless? [55:12]

Something Interesting: [1:02:21]

- Napoleon’s solution to inbox overload
- Rethinking productivity: impact vs. velocity

Links:

abc.net.au/religion/maryanne-wolf-cultivating-deep-reading-in-a-digital-age/102001224

reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/11fphcy/til_napoleon_bonaparte_refused_to_open_his_mail/

itamargilad.com/velocity-vs-impact/

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuestJet.
0:15.6	The show about living and working deeply in an increasingly distracted world.
0:23.9	Here are my deep work HQ.
0:26.8	Joined as always by my producer, Jesse, I'm going to make an announcement about something
0:33.1	that you in particular have been working on in recent months, which is our new-ish website,
0:41.9	TheDeepLife.com.
0:45.0	So we soft-launched this a couple months ago just to get used to the interface and to start
0:49.4	populating it in content with content.
0:52.2	But TheDeepLife.com is the official home among other things of this podcast.
0:59.8	Every episode has its own page at TheDeepLife.com where you can listen to the episode, find it
1:06.3	in all the various players.
1:08.1	Also any videos related to that episode to be found right there on the episodes page
1:14.3	as well.
1:15.3	So that is going to be the home for this podcast, the site for this podcast.
1:20.0	It's also the home for all of the video that we produce.
1:24.2	So all of the video we produce related to the podcast as well as the standalone videos
1:29.8	that we produce infrequently now but probably more frequently in the future.
1:35.3	All of those will be housed in addition to on YouTube at Cal Newport YouTube slash Cal
1:40.2	Newport Media.
1:41.2	They'll also be housed at TheDeepLife.com.
1:44.4	So if you want to watch podcast episodes, watch clips from episodes, watch other videos
1:49.0	we've done, like our weekly update videos, but you're suspicious, for example, of the YouTube
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