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

So I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jesse. Jesse, there's a couple slow productivity announcements like news

announcements I figured it'd be worthwhile to share what do we got well okay so

number one the the issue of nature, which is, you know, the famous science journal that

comes out the day we're recording this, features a really nice profile of yours truly talking

about slow productivity, the the book and how it

applies to scientists. So you know all all young professors in the sciences

dream of one day being published in nature.

Typically they're thinking about their groundbreaking research,

making it to the cover of the magazine.

I guess I slipped in the back door, but I can now say I made it in the nature.

Here's the funny thing, though.

I think there was some lack of

communication between different departments there, right? So this article came

out online a couple days ago and it's in the print version of nature. The week before they

published an editorial by someone talking about slow productivity in my book and

why it was useful for scientists. Sort of coincidentally, so I'm featured in nature twice

basically in like the same the same period I don't know if the editorial is in the

print version or not but it's all Cal Newport all the time for this very brief window of nature the journal nature this week

Well include the no the links in the show notes. Yeah. Yeah, so it's cool. So I'm getting some

Getting some nature love and it was easier than having to make it breakthrough research

contribution. That's pretty cool. The other thing we mentioned this briefly

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