Ep. 249: The Good Enough Job (w/ Simone Stolzoff)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Do you live to work or work to live? In this episode, Cal talks with author Simone Stolfzoff about his provocative new book, THE GOOD ENOUGH JOB. Cal then answers listener questions about escaping professional unhappiness, and then switches gears in the Something Interesting segment to talk about the critical technological breakthrough that not enough people yet are talking about.

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DEEP DIVE: Cal talks about the Good Enough Job with author Simone Stolzoff [4:39]

- What kind of a job do I want? [59:31]

- If I enjoy my job, why can’t I focus? [1:05:28]

- Should I give up on finding an academic job? [1:17:23]

- Should I cut my salary in half to escape the hyperactive hive mind? [1:25:07]

SOMETHING INTERESTING: Apple’s most interesting new tech strategy has nothing to do with A.I. [1:34:41]

Links:

wsj.com/articles/apple-is-breaking-its-own-rules-with-a-new-headset-80c9b36c

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions.
0:15.4	The show about living and working deeply in a distracted world.
0:23.6	Here my Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer, Jesse.
0:28.8	You hear me stumble a little bit on the line because I was getting in my head about
0:33.2	getting rid of in an increasingly distracted world, and I was getting ahead of that.
0:37.7	Don't forget to do that.
0:38.7	I stumbled over the earlier words.
0:40.4	I noticed.
0:41.4	Yeah.
0:42.4	It's kind of a sectarian battle right now amidst our listeners about the pro-in increasing
0:48.4	people and the anti-in increasing people.
0:51.6	The audience is about split.
0:53.6	I listen to a lot of talk radio, so I'm always listening to the way they initiate and
0:57.6	stuff.
0:58.6	Yeah.
0:59.6	Well, that was not a master class, the way I just pronounced that subhead.
1:03.2	I'll tell you what.
1:04.2	You know what?
1:05.2	I just picked up, speaking of unrelated topics, I just picked up my faculty academic regalia.
1:14.6	Is that a robe?
1:16.6	It's the robe and the weird puffy hat, the medieval dress of the faculty member with
1:24.4	a doctorate in the...
	...

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