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 here, I'm a computer science professor who also writes about the various ways that technology impacts how we live, work, and relate with each other. On this show I give concrete advice

about the big ideas I tackle in my writing. I'm here in my deep work HQ in sunny

Tacoma Park, Maryland.

It's snowing slash raining simultaneously outside.

That's an inside joke for those here in the studio.

Speaking of which, I'm joined as always by my producer Jesse I guess

it's nice outside I don't know it's snowing which is nice but it's also

raining at the same time so yeah it's not not too too cold. But somehow that's worse.

Hey I wanted to check in real quickly on my book, Slow Productivity, which comes out in

March. The pre-order campaign is continuing to go well. We're getting close to pre-order numbers. You know, I

think we're starting to catch some attention among the sales staff and some of the

book industry. So this is all great. So if you like this show and you're you I talk about, I know you'll like this book.

So if you're going to buy the book anyways, please consider pre-ordering it.

Here's how it works.

It's actually really simple.

You buy a copy of slow productivity wherever you want.

Amazon, you pre-order it from your local bookstore, you pre-order it from our

local bookstore to get a signed copy. You can find out more about that

at CalNewport.com. So wherever you buy it. And then you simply just email your

receipt to slow at pre-order bonuses.com.

So then we have your receipt and your email address.

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