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

So I'm back after my long summer location hiatus up north to the Deep Work HQ here in

Tacoma Park, Maryland, joined in person once again by my producer Jesse.

Jesse, I'll tell you why having just returned it's good and I'm happy that I have also the HQ here in addition to my

house to go work and write, this is true, the house next to us. They're currently filming a movie there

Really? Yeah, so a little distracting not a major movie, but there is a novelist who lived in Tacoma Park

wrote some books set in Tacoma Park. They made a movie out of the first book, now they're making movie out of the second, and

they wanted to film it in Tacoma Park.

So they're filming in our neighbor's house.

It's a small indie production, but even small indie

productions, as I've learned, is three full rented cargo trucks full of

equipment. For a week or so? I think like two weeks. Yeah, I think they're happy that I have the

HQ as well. I thought this was a good idea. You can verify this or not, but I

figured sort of the help to sort of quirky cinema veritae naturalism of the movie, you know, what I would do is see what angle

camera angle they're currently filming on and then make sure in the background I could be

walking by just holding Jesse's skeleton. And I thought that would just be like a nice

little thing to the movie is like no matter what scene you in, you would just see me walking by holding

Jesse's skeleton. It would kind of be like a quirky indie character to it. Anyways, one,

sees from the system, multiple police visits later. I'm here at the HQ and glad to be here not bothering them anymore.

No it is distracting there so this is it is good to be here. I missed the office

and then you could do some stuff with your Christmas lights and your

Halloween lights. I don't know if this is a problem, but I have set up

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