I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions.

So if you're new to the show, I'm a computer science professor and writer.

Here we like to talk about how to navigate the promises and perils of new technology

while keeping your humanity intact.

There's three specific topics we tend to cover within the general subject.

First is understanding new technologies, how they impact us and what we should do about it. Second is how to thrive in the era of digital knowledge work and third we like to talk about cultivating

the deep life as a bulwark against all of these

distractions and divergence. I'm here in my deep work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse

Jesse today's show we're getting into that third topic cultivating a deep life as a

bull work against diversions and distractions.

You know, as I've been thinking about this topic more as I'm working in the early stages

on a book about the deep life, there's an idea that came up that I've been clarifying

in my own thinking, and I'm going to get into that in today's deep dive,

a common trap that people fall into and trying to make their life more intentional.

We got some good questions, including a call and a

case study, do some deep life questions, have a slow productivity corner in there,

and then finally our final segment we will do the books I read in May. So stay tuned for that. Now before we get into it

though Jesse I like to think about things I'm grateful for and I'll tell you

something I'm grateful for right now, which is summertime.

Yeah. You know for me and I write about this in my book's little productivity I'm very

seasonal. You know different seasons of the years I'm focused primarily on different things

Some seasons are more intense than others

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