Ep. 312: Productivity Basics

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

It’s mid-summer, people have some extra breathing room in their schedule, they’re relaxed. This moment of quiet seems like a perfect time to revisit some of this show’s most popular ideas about finding productivity in a world drowning in digital distractions. In this episode, Cal reviews his five most effective productivity related ideas. He then answers reader questions and reviews the seven books he read in July 2024. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their times...

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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.
0:29.7	So I'm here in my Deep Work HQ joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:36.0	Jesse I've got one arbitrary milestone to announce and one request for the listeners arbitrary milestone I stumbled across this the other day when I was
0:39.4	missing around with our podcast statistics but we are honing in on 15 million downloads.
0:47.0	Oh, wow.
0:48.0	Again, an arbitrary number, but I think we're 4,500,000 downloads away, so, you you know a month or so away so anyway it's exciting
0:57.1	I don't know quite what that represents but it just means that's a lot of
1:00.6	It's a lot of deep questions listening so I thought that maybe we'll do something to
1:05.4	celebrate that number when we get there.
1:07.1	Yeah, we're close to Tim Ferris, is a billion.
1:10.3	We're, you know, we're getting there.
1:12.4	We're one zero away. That's the way I think about it. How hard could it be to get 1-0?
1:17.0	Oh man.
1:18.0	Brogan must have a ton. Oh God, yeah. I don't know. If you counted YouTube views as well, it's probably huge.
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:25.6	Yeah. And Huberman, I think, gets a billion downloads per episode.
1:29.0	Is that, it's just crazy with that guy.
1:31.4	He wants to do deep work with you.
1:32.8	I guess so, yeah.
1:34.1	I know.
1:35.1	Well, maybe I should be doing deep work with him
1:36.3	because his show seems to be listened to by,
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