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

Published: March 5, 2021, 12:27 a.m.

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\\nOUTLINE:
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\\n(00:00) - Introduction
\\n(08:24) - Deep work
\\n(13:10) - Focus
\\n(18:52) - Time blocking
\\n(25:47) - Deadlines
\\n(35:22) - Do less, do better, know why
\\n(38:04) - Clubhouse
\\n(52:07) - Burnout
\\n(58:34) - Boredom
\\n(1:06:19) - Quit social media for 30 days
\\n(1:16:13) - Social media
\\n(1:41:21) - How email destroyed our productivity at work
\\n(1:51:07) - How we fix email
\\n(1:58:09) - Over-optimization
\\n(2:02:23) - When to use email and when not to
\\n(2:10:06) - Podcasting
\\n(2:14:42) - Alan Turing proving the impossible
\\n(2:18:41) - Fragility of math in the face of randomness
\\n(2:27:30) - Neural networks
\\n(2:36:16) - What will the P=NP proof look like?
\\n(2:39:55) - Is math discovered or invented?
\\n(2:44:02) - Book publishing
\\n(2:54:09) - Love
\\n(2:57:30) - Death
\\n(3:00:26) - Meaning of life"