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. I'll tell you the other day Jesse, there was a reporter, journalist, or podcast or I know someone who was

interviewing me was here in Tacoma Park and they were excited to see Jesse's

skeleton and I had to tell them,

Justice Skeleton is no longer at the Deep Work HQ.

I had to integrate them into my Halloween display.

So I don't want to say that they were very disappointed,

but yeah, they're very disappointed. It's on you

know working duty in the month of October. It's got a lot to do yeah it's got a lot that

has to be done. What are you going to do? Yeah. And that reporter was Bob Woodward.

He's writing a whole book about it now.

The missing bones. All right. When I briefly mentioned I have a new New

Yorker piece. I always like to tell the audience when there's the new New Yorker piece to read.

This one was a little bit different, Jesse. It was art criticism. You were a minor in

college, right? I was indeed. I was a minor in art history in college, almost a major. I was just a course or two away.

There's a feature at the New Yorker called Photo Booth, where it's essays reacting to some

sort of visual artifact, like a new art exhibit or a new art book and

then the thing is they have their different writers from their different topics

write this you rotate through so they asked me to write it about the

re-release of a photo book by Lars Turned Bjork, I believe he's Swedish.

It was a photo book from the early 2000s about offices, kind of like a stark aesthetic look at office life.

And so I wrote about it.

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