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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Ep. 295: Artists Revolt Against Social Media

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Cal takes a closer look at a growing trend of artists quitting social media and instead reverting to old-fashioned websites. Are these acts of principled sacrifice or a sustainable way to be creative online? Cal argues for the latter, showing how the internet without social media curation algorithms can be a place of rich discovery and audience building. He then takes questions on similar topics and ends by playing a few rounds of “deep or crazy” during the final segment.

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

Deep Dive: A Quiet Revolt Against Social Media [7:37]

- Is my deep living too extreme? [45:06]
- LinkedIn is getting toxic. Should I quit that too? [47:39]
- Where do online articles fit into the life of a digital minimalist? [51:09]
- Did Cal design the specifications for the hardcover copy of “Slow Productivity”? [54:04]
- How do I not feel overwhelmed by online content after a Digital Declutter? [58:07]
- CALL: Obsessing over quality [1:01:08]

CASE STUDY: Applying lessons from “Digital Minimalism” [1:06:37]

CAL REACTS: Deep or Crazy? [1:13:54]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a high-tech world.

0:20.0

I'm here in my Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.

0:29.3

Jesse we actually won't be in the Deep Work HQ for next week's episode because we are

0:34.9

recording a I'm putting live in quotation marks but we are recording live to

0:40.9

tape this podcast on Thursday.

0:45.8

So on the Thursday that this podcast comes out,

0:49.0

that's April 11th, we're recording our podcast

0:51.4

at People's Book in Tacoma Park, independent bookstore around the corner from our normal podcast studio,

0:58.0

open to the public at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11th at 6 p.m. There's a link in the show description about how you

1:08.0

can RSVP is free but they want you to RSVP. Also if you're listening to

1:11.5

this podcast on Monday, the day it comes out the 8th, I'm speaking

1:15.9

at Georgetown University talking about the book, slow productivity, and going to take a lot of

1:21.6

questions from the audience.

1:22.6

That's the main campus of Georgetown in the Fisher Colloquium space,

1:26.7

that's in the Harare Business School building.

1:31.2

I put some information for this in the description also at Cal Newport.com under essays I

1:36.7

posted some information. So it would be great to see people. So what are we going to talk about today?

1:41.4

Well I keep trying to categorize what are the main categories. talk about

1:45.0

on this show.

1:48.0

I'm altering that list a little bit.

1:50.0

We have digital knowledge work,

1:52.0

so trying to survive and thrive and digital knowledge work, so trying to survive and thrive in digital

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