I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply in a distracted

world.

So if you're new to this strange little world we enjoy here. I'm a computer

science professor at Georgetown University and a digital theorist who writes about the way technology

impacts how we live, how we work, and how we relate to each other.

On this show, I give concrete advice about the ideas I tackle in my writing.

I'm here in my deep work HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse.

Jesse, I want to point out something that gives me hope

for the more quick internet age generations out there. know as a semi public figure I get a

fair amount of hate mail that makes its way to me a lot of people who sort of just

sit there really mad and just think if I could just get this person.

Well anyways I had an interesting hate mail message the other day.

That gave me some hope.

It was a mean message, you're terrible, blah blah blah blah but he signed it with a very

creative salutation you know at the end you would put like sincerely or best he

signed it with malice and then his name.

And I thought that was pretty clever.

You know, it just, there's a, he has a formality for the game of being mean to someone,

that you, at least you respect good communication

skill so I enjoy that I want to sign more letters that way so you read the whole

message well I skimmed it yeah you know these people, it's all in an age of text message, it's all caps,

incoherent, so it's really nice to have a well-trained grammatically correct hater.

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