Ep. 321: Escaping Your Phone

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Technology, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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It has become second nature to maintain a continuous partial participation in the world of digital networks. In today’s episode, Cal reflects on a week in which he spent too much time online, and argues why this continuous partial participation is dehumanizing, and what you can do to escape. He then takes questions and calls from listeners and reviews the five books he read in September. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions ...

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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
0:18.7	world.
0:21.7	So I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse.
0:30.0	Yes, we got a good episode coming up. We're going to do some phone stuff, which we haven't done recently, but I have a personal experience that's going to motivate today's discussion.
0:41.0	Then we got some good questions and because it is believe it or
0:44.4	not this is our first episode airing in October because I think last week was
0:49.2	the 30th of September yeah we'll do the books I read, the books I read in September 2024.
0:57.1	So I'm excited for it.
0:58.4	It's Halloween season, Jesse.
1:00.0	You doing your lights?
1:02.0	I'm working on the lights. I've added a second computer controlled strand and so they'll be synchronized.
1:09.0	We've got to get Jesse Skeleton going in here at some point as well once we have him going. skeleton going
1:14.4	There's no quicker way to alienate all of our new listeners and viewers
1:18.9	Then to have Jesse skeleton show up in this show so I look forward to losing many of you in the weeks
1:25.2	ahead when we do our Halloween bits. We'll have to see I think we have a recording
1:29.9	right near Halloween so we'll have to do it in costume or something like that.
1:34.0	Yeah, that'll be good.
1:36.0	Anyways, we got a good show, so I figure why delay, let's get rolling with today's deep dive.
1:42.0	So as most of you probably know I am not a heavy
1:46.7	phone user. I do own a smartphone but I don't use any social media so my phone
1:52.2	just isn't that interesting to me.
1:54.1	When I work I time block my day so the idea of just casually looking at my
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