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

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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