Ep. 246: Kids and Phones

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Are smartphones bad for kids? Cal walks through the data on this question, including how researchers came to be worried, their findings, critiques of their findings, and where we are today. He then gives recommendations for how to think about technology when it comes to your kids.

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

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

Today’s Deep Question: Are smartphones bad for kids? [3:10]

- Is the deep life dull? [49:35]

- How do I stop doom-scrolling when I’m tired? [53:49]

- Are smartphones bad for older people? [57:35]

- How does Cal decide to adopt new technology or software? [1:02:06]

- How do I stay deep while traveling at conferences? [1:06:33]

The Books Cal read in March 2023 [1:12:38]

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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 DeepQuestions.
0:15.5	The show about living and working deeply in an increasingly distracted world.
0:24.2	I'm here on my DeepWork HQ, joined once again by my producer, Jesse, we had a week off
0:31.6	of recording together.
0:32.6	It's good to have you back.
0:34.6	Good to be back.
0:35.6	This is a little known fact about when I solo record, Jesse, you will attest that when
0:41.0	we record, we won't take it, we just go live, we just rock and roll, warts and all.
0:47.2	Whenever you're not here, it's always two takes.
0:50.6	Really?
0:51.6	We'll go about five minutes and then stop and then go back and take another run at it.
0:57.6	I don't know why.
0:58.6	What did you do back in the day?
1:02.4	I'm trying to think, back in the very, like the deep day, when I was early in the podcast,
1:08.6	I would often, when it was all audio, I would stop all the time because it was easy.
1:14.5	I would just go for a while, but if I get to a question, it would be really common.
1:18.3	You might start answering a question and say, I don't really like that, and I could
1:21.8	just, there's just one track in the software, it was just me, it was just audio.
1:25.5	I could just go back and, like, let me take another run at that.
1:29.2	The trade-off was, I didn't prep, I would just list out a bunch of questions and rock
1:32.8	and roll, but if I didn't like an answer, I might go back and take another run at it.
1:37.1	Once we started doing video, I swapped out around and said, well, I don't actually do
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