I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions.

So if you're new on this show we help you navigate both the promises and perils of new

technologies. There's three main topics we talk about. One is understanding new

technologies and how it impacts us.

Number two is thriving in the digital age of knowledge work.

And number three is systematically cultivating a deep life

as a bulwark towards against all of these distractions and diversions.

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

Jesse, it's actually on your suggestion that we are going back in today's episode

hardcore into the understanding new technologies topic. We haven't done that one in

a while. We are going to get geeky, so get out your D-20s and Star Trek pins, we are going to go deep on some new ideas of

mind of trying to understand artificial intelligence in our current moment and hopefully diffuse

some of the fears that are swirling around this new technology.

Then we got a bunch of good questions, we got a call, we got a final segment where we're

going to deal with an article that's probably been sent to me more than any article in probably

the last six months. I think a dozen or more people sent me this article. in probably because I'm mentioned in some of the news coverage surrounding it so

that'll be fun we'll get into that later.

First though a couple things to notice, we have a update on my book, Slow Productivity.

We are at the sixth month mark of the year 2024, so you know know in the publishing world there's often

lists that are released of what's our favorite books or best books of the year

so far and then at the end of the year they tend to update the list of what's the

best books of the year. So I'm happy to report that slow productivity was

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