Ep. 241: The Virality Trap

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Why does Twitter maintain such a strong grip on those who produce things with their minds for a living? Is it really so critical that we all spend so many hours spreading our output on this particular platform? In today’s episode, we explore this question, seeking new, more sustainable and humane ways to be an online creative professional.

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Today’s Deep Question: Given all the advantages of controlling your own digital press, why do so many content producers rely on Twitter? [5:39]

- Does Twitter’s new view count feature make the service even worse? [27:10]
- Why do so many important business/thought leaders spend so much time on Twitter? [35:14]
- Does this professor need Twitter? [43:00]
- Does Mastadon stand a chance against Twitter? [53:26]

SOMETHING INTERESTING:

Started From the Bottom podcast [1:01:04]
pushkin.fm/podcasts/started-from-the-bottom

Australian senators backing 4-day work week [1:03:12]
theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/09/australia-four-day-work-week-labor-greens-senators-support

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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 Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in
0:17.1	an increasingly distracted world.
0:20.2	I'm here at my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:29.0	I found a way to against all the promises I've made to our listeners to work baseball back
0:36.0	into the show opening day next week, opening day next week.
0:40.3	We will be podcasting live from that's park now or not.
0:43.1	We should though.
0:44.1	We could pause podcast live from the bullpen.
0:46.8	It's still my, yeah, that's right.
0:47.8	You have the connection there.
0:48.8	It's still my dream that Mike Rizzo at some point is going to get connected to this general
0:52.9	manager of the nationals to this podcast and say what we need is like Cal to come talk
0:57.0	to our front office.
0:58.6	And I just come in there talk about roll without email talk about deep work next season
1:03.7	world series and there they are.
1:06.0	The trophies being handed out and I'm come sort of on the field, you know, but I'm not
1:09.5	up there on the dius and Rizzo just gives me the finger point and I just give him like
1:13.4	the thumbs up and it's like a real emotional and he's sort of acknowledging that the front
1:16.6	offices embrace of deep work and non-context switching collaboration processes was really
1:24.0	kind of at the foundation of the next world series run.
1:27.6	I think the reasonable dream, but anyways, what I wanted to, what I wanted to show you,
1:31.4	I'm working baseball in here subtly.
	...

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