Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-04-21 · 72 min · 14,677 words

Ep. 349: Sam Altman On Productivity

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I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world. So I'm here on my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse. Interesting, I'm gonna put out a PSA to our listeners here. They should, if they have questions they're interested in having be addressed on the show, submit questions, right? Correct.

We always need more. And we tend to age out of questions. So even if we have a lot, uh, the ones we don't get to, they become dated. So it's always to your advantage as a question asker to submit. new and fresh questions.

Shorter, I think, right, Jesse, tends to be better than long. Yeah. If you put the four or five paragraphs, explanation is harder to do. The link to submit those questions, where are we seeing people? The deeplife.com slash listen.

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