Ep. 297: The Deep Life Hardware

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Why do you struggle with your grand attempts to escape distraction and aimlessness to make your life deeper? In this episode, Cal draws on an unexpected metaphor – Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Analytical Engine – to help identify the subtle obstacle on your path to increase depth. With this new understanding in hand, he then details a specific gameplan to get around it. Later, he takes questions from the audience and reacts to the new AI Pin, a tool intended to render smartphones obsolete.

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: The Deep Life Hardware [4:09]

- Does personal productivity make us anxious? [34:04]
- How can I build skills without getting in the way of my existing work? [42:11]
- How can I build a deeper life after years of neglect? [46:00]
- How is Sam Sulek’s stripped down YouTube channel doing so well? [52:12]
- How can I convince my husband that I’m not a time management snob? [1:02:38]
- CALL: Obsessing over quality [1:06:04]

CASE STUDY: Shifting a mindset to do more deep work [1:11:04]

CAL REACTS: Is the Al Pin the End of Smartphones? [1:17:46]

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow
computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/
theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversation-with-cal-newport-the-key-to/id1498802610?i=1000652834277
samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/363-knowledge-work
Use this link to preorder a signed copy of “Slow Productivity”: https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/preorder-slow-productivity/

Thanks to our Sponsors:

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 in a distracted world.
0:29.3	So I'm here back in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:44.0	Jesse do you do you miss the the mad cap primal excitement that is podcasting live in front of an independent bookstore crowd or are you happy to be back to the the quiet and calm of our HQ studio. I thought was a good experience.
0:46.0	Yeah. I enjoyed it.
0:48.0	I think it was fun.
0:49.0	We got to be in front of a bunch of people, a bunch of fans,
0:52.0	to a bunch of questions life, it was fans, do a bunch of questions life.
0:52.8	It was fun, but you know it is nice to be back in our controlled environment I suppose.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	We had Adam helping us out with the audio which helped.
1:00.0	Yeah, that was nice.
1:01.0	Yeah, shout out to Adam.
1:02.0	And we got some nice video on it. So you should watch the video if you haven't seen it. We have good video of that live event.
1:07.0	In general for the video, I guess I should say, videos of the episodes, the Deep Life.com
1:13.0	slash listen you just go to the episode you're interested in
1:16.0	link to the video below this is episode 297 we do have some visuals coming up
1:20.0	so you might want to find it on there if you want to see what we're talking about so what are we going to find it on there if you want to see what we're talking about?
1:24.0	Well, you know, there's three main categories of topics we tend to cover in the show all about being deeper in a world of distraction.
1:32.0	One is digital knowledge work, two as
1:34.5	promised and parallel to new technology, and three is the sort of systematic
1:38.3	engineering of depth, trying to engineer more depth into your life when there's all these distractions
1:43.6	pulling from it. We're going to have a deep dive in that third category today. We
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