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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 289: The Email Catastrophe

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

How did we end up tyrannized by our inboxes? How is this related to Tyrannosaurus? What was it like working at a high-tech company at the exact moment email was introduced? In this episode, Cal weaves together all these questions into a story about the unexpected ways technology impacts our lives and what we can do after the fact to make things better.

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Deep Dive: The Email Catastrophe [3:47]

- How do I deal with email overload in a government job? [45:34]
- How do I deal with an employer who demands constant responsiveness?[55:36]
- How can I concentrate when coding when I need to use my web browser? [58:27]
- How do I overcome my fear of missing important emails? [1:02:35]
- CALL: Can slow productivity work for an academic? [1:06:38]

CAL REACTS: Reader Comments on his NYT Op-Ed [1:17:47]

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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 cultivating a deep life and a world drowning in digital distraction. So I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer

0:29.2

Jesse. Just see I'd say the exciting thing about this week is officially the book launch for slow productivity

0:37.1

has begun because the first publicity has gone live.

0:41.2

Tim Ferris?

0:42.2

Tim Ferris was our first podcast interview to go live. Tim Ferris? Tim Ferris was our first podcast interview to go live.

0:45.0

A great episode.

0:47.0

Tim and I always see eye to eye on a lot of issues and also think about a lot of the same issues and sometimes have

0:53.8

different takes on it so I think it's a great interview I mean we get into

0:56.8

slow productivity a lot of the details of slow productivity but also talk

1:00.5

about some other things like YouTube, video, the future, a podcast,

1:05.1

and independent media is a fun discussion so definitely check that out.

1:08.0

That is the first, officially the first podcast we interview I did on the book.

1:14.7

Also we had the first print publicity.

1:17.8

I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times.

1:20.2

That was in the newspaper a couple Sundays ago.

1:24.1

We're going to, this is probably a bad idea, Jesse,

1:27.2

but in the third segment of the show today, God forbid,

1:29.4

I'm going to read and react to comments on my New York Times op-ed but it's a cool op-ed it's about

1:35.7

seasonality come straight from the book so if you're a New York Times subscriber check

1:38.8

that out there's a lot more to come but that's the starting gun is the way I see it for this book launch.

1:45.0

Meanwhile you have about a book a week left rather before the book comes out on March 5th

1:50.3

here in the US and March 7th in the UK. If you're thinking about buying the book

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