Slow Productivity & More with Cal Newport EP 348
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Sarah welcome Cal Newport to Best of Both Worlds to chat all things slow productivity and how Cal's stage of parenting influenced a lot of his current thinking around productivity, pacing, and getting things done.
In the intro, Sarah and Laura discuss their own planning habits going back to childhood, and in the Q&A a listener writes in asking about how Laura and Sarah read blogs - do they browse through individual urls, or is there another way?
Cal Newport's book Slow Productivity released in March 2024 and is available wherever books are sold.
Sarah's recommended feed reader: Feedly
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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| 0:41.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. Hi, I'm Laura Vandercam. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:50.9 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both |
| 0:55.8 | Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out |
| 1:01.8 | child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 1:17.7 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in early April of 24. |
| 1:28.1 | Sarah and I are going to be interviewing Cal Newport, who is the author of Slow Productivity, which is a new book, also the author of Deep Work and several other books. |
| 1:33.2 | And you'll notice that Sarah and I are both interviewing him. What happened? We tend to do interviews solo these days, partly for efficiency purposes, so we can make it work with everyone's |
| 1:39.4 | schedules. So I had set this up with his publicity person, but then Cal sent us a very nice email to both of us saying how excited he was to chat about productivity. |
| 1:49.8 | So I could not deny him, Sarah. |
| 1:52.5 | And so she fortunately was free and could make it. |
| 1:57.0 | So Sarah, since we talk a lot about productivity in this, have you always been into productivity? |
| 2:03.0 | Like you did planners and calendars and such in high school? |
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