Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166

Cal Newport is a computer scientist who also writes about productivity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
A World Without Email (book): https://amzn.to/3blXyjv
Deep Work (book): https://amzn.to/3c0npMM
Digital Minimalism (book): https://amzn.to/3kJPMmx
Cal’s Website: https://www.calnewport.com/
Deep Questions (podcast): https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:15 – Deep work
7:00 – Focus
12:43 – Time blocking
19:38 – Deadlines
29:13 – Do less, do better, know why
31:55 – Clubhouse
45:58 – Burnout
52:25 – Boredom
1:00:10 – Quit social media for 30 days
1:10:04 – Social media
1:35:12 – How email destroyed our productivity at work
1:44:57 – How we fix email
1:51:59 – Over-optimization
1:56:14 – When to use email and when not to
2:03:57 – Podcasting
2:08:33 – Alan Turing proving the impossible
2:12:32 – Fragility of math in the face of randomness
2:21:21 – Neural networks
2:30:06 – What will the P=NP proof look like?
2:33:46 – Is math discovered or invented?
2:37:53 – Book publishing
2:47:59 – Love
2:51:21 – Death
2:54:17 – Meaning of life

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