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#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 5 Jahren

Cal Newport is a computer scientist who also writes about productivity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free - Linode: https://linode.

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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:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(08:24) – Deep work

(13:10) – Focus

(18:52) – Time blocking

(25:47) – Deadlines

(35:22) – Do less, do better, know why

(38:04) – Clubhouse

(52:07) – Burnout

(58:34) – Boredom

(1:06:19) – Quit social media for 30 days

(1:16:13) – Social media

(1:41:21) – How email destroyed our productivity at work

(1:51:07) – How we fix email

(1:58:09) – Over-optimization

(2:02:23) – When to use email and when not to

(2:10:06) – Podcasting

(2:14:42) – Alan Turing proving the impossible

(2:18:41) – Fragility of math in the face of randomness

(2:27:30) – Neural networks

(2:36:16) – What will the P=NP proof look like?

(2:39:55) – Is math discovered or invented?

(2:44:02) – Book publishing

(2:54:09) – Love

(2:57:30) – Death

(3:00:26) – Meaning of life