I'm Cal Newport and this is deep questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world.

Normally I would be joining you from my Deep Work HQ in Tacoma Park, Maryland, but not today.

I am actually up in an undisclosed location up north where I am recovering from my book tour

and beginning to do some more serious writing on my next book.

Fortunately, due to the miracle of internet technology, I am still joined as

always by my producer Jesse. Jesse, hopefully you're doing okay down south.

I'm doing fine, I'm holding down the floor of the HQ.

I really, not for your sake, but for my sake I want to hear that it's just very, very hot.

Actually, the last couple days haven't been horrible. want to hear that it's just very, very hot.

Actually, the last couple days haven't been horrible,

but today is pretty muggy and hot.

All right, I like to hear that.

Makes me feel better when I escape up north.

As you'll hear, I went when I escape up north as you'll hear I went back long time listeners will recognize I went

back to the old intro cultivating a deep life in a distracted world I thought the new intro, though informative, was too long and clunky.

And what does everything come back to on the show?

Well, we have this world that's distracted due to new technologies and we want to find depth and how we work and how we live.

So I went back to our old shorter intro.

So I don't know if people will like or just like it, Jesse, but I decided, inspired by the Northern Air up here to make a change.

I like it.

All right, so, we got a good show.

You know, I think we are in the deep dive that's coming up. I'm going to overlap two of the common topics we like to talk about. So, you know, I always summarize we do digital knowledge work

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