Ep. 287: Minimalist Notes

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

A deep life requires that you encounter and make sense of a large amount of incoming information, from narrow data relevant to a professional project, to broad insights into your purpose. How do you keep track of all of this? In this episode, Cal proposes a minimalist approach aimed at minimizing the friction required to keep tabs on what matters.

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Deep Dive: How to track information that matters [2:55]

- How should I make use of non-cognitive time? [27:37]
- Can people with ADHD become better at learning? [32:49]
- What does Cal think of Gloria Mark’s “4 myths of attention span”? [36:31]
- How can I concentrate on my dissertation when I have a full-time job? [47:04]
- How can I stop wasting my afternoon time blocks? [53:20]
- CALL: How can I better organize my idea notebooks? [1:01:38]

CASE STUDY: Avoiding the hyperactive hive mind to work more efficiently [1:05:46]

CAL REACTS: Is it bad to be slow? [1:13:46]

Links:
dailystoic.com/try-not-to-be-so-slow/
gloriamark.com/attention-span

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for slow productivity 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 in working deeply in a distracted world.
0:28.0	So if you're new, I'm a computer science professor and digital theorist who writes about the intersection of technology and the way we live and work. on this show I give concrete advice about the big ideas I write about.
0:37.0	I'm recording today in the Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:46.9	Jesse, once again, I continue to be happy
0:49.8	about the people showing up
0:52.4	for this pre-order campaign for the new book
0:54.2	Slow Productivity yeah the numbers are great I think it's it's catching attention
0:58.8	of people in the industry so thank you for that if you haven't pre-ordered and you're thinking
1:04.1	about it we put everything at one place cal newport.com slash slow the bonuses you can
1:10.1	get for pre-ordering are there links to pre pre-order are there, you can download a
1:14.0	free excerpt. If you want to pre-order a signed version from People's Book here in Tacoma Park,
1:18.4	there's a link to that, so just go to CalNewport.com slash Slo. And for all of
1:22.4	you who have pre-ordered thank you for supporting me
1:25.8	and the book an administrative point specific to our podcast we need more calls right Jesse yeah we do it's easy so if you go to I'm
1:37.7	throwing a lot of URLs at you so we'll put this in the show notes too. The people always say that Jesse. This is what what would happen.
1:46.7	All right, here's my question about podcasting industry question. A lot of podcasts,
1:51.2	they're constantly saying, put this in the show notes, put this in the show notes put this in the
1:54.4	show notes let's say that there was a law passed that said no show notes for like
1:58.0	one month but it really changed much are people reading the show notes?
2:03.0	They are.
2:04.0	Some of my favorite podcasts I do go to the show notes.
2:06.0	You do read the show notes, but you're not representative, I think, of normal people.
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