Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-07-21 · 71 min · 14,199 words

Ep. 362: The Texting Dilemma

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I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world. Once again, I'm recording from an undisclosed location up north, but Jesse, my producer, is joining me from the deep work. HQ. Jesse, there has been some requests for an update on my writing up here, so I'll give it to you. Last week we started the episode with me saying I had just thrown out what it's like two or three days worth of work?

It was something like that. Yeah. All right, I was I was working on a chapter. I thought I had cracked it. I spent two days actually executing my thoughts and then

threw it all out moments before we started recording last week. Now I'm happy to report I have finished that chapter. It worked. Uh it's polished and it's submitted. So it it it it took another five days, but I got it done.

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