Ep. 239: On Time and Stress

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The relationship with time is one of the more interesting things going on in work culture. Many knowledge workers take on too much work and become overloaded. If we have less to do, our relationship with time can be repaired. So we have to think very concretely about building systems and mindsets that reduce how much we have to do.

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Today’s Deep Question: Is our relationship to time broken? [16:12]

- Do we need AI-driven time management tools? (Rant alert) [39:39]
- Is slow productivity compatible with becoming world class in a competitive field? [47:46]
- What deep accomplishments are Cal and Jesse most proud about? [50:15]
- CASE STUDY: A composer embraces slow productivity [59:40]

Something Interesting:

- Quiet quitting in academia? [1:08:35]

Links:

https://www.ft.com/content/176c104a-32c0-4267-b122-add10e5405f9
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/books/time-jenny-odell-.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00633-w

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is DeepQuestGit, the show about living and working deeply in an increasingly
0:18.4	distracted world.
0:23.3	I'm here, my DeepWork HQ.
0:26.9	The joint is always by my producer, Jesse, just saying and described to you as my world
0:32.8	famous producer, Jesse, now that you've made your international media debut, so we've
0:43.3	mentioned this before on the show, but for a while last fall, there was a reporter from
0:46.7	the Financial Times who was hanging out at the HQ at some of my events and doing some interviews
0:52.0	for a profile they wrote, or they were writing about me for the Financial Times, and that
0:56.5	came out last weekend, I'll load it on the screen here for those who are watching at YouTube
1:02.4	.com slash Cal Newport Media, it's episode 239, also you can find this at thedeeplife.com.
1:09.3	So here's me looking heroic for this magazine article, How Cal Newport We Wrote to Productivity
1:14.4	Gospel.
1:15.4	You know, Jesse, this ended up being the cover of the magazine.
1:19.1	That's awesome.
1:20.1	It's a sweet picture.
1:21.6	It's the parking lot behind the HQ.
1:23.6	Yeah, I mean, I was looking around the article and I noticed a lot of the, yeah, so I've only
1:28.7	skimmed this because I can't stand to reading about myself, but what's important, what's
1:33.4	important is if we, and there's a long article, which is a whole other issue, there's the
1:39.4	magazine cover there.
1:40.4	All right, so if we scroll down farther in this article, we see that is producer Jesse was
1:48.2	already there.
	...

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