Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-08-04 · 69 min · 14,027 words

Ep. 364: Metrics 101

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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 in my Deep Work HQ, joined by my producer Jesse. Jesse, the uh the restaurant below is rock and rolling. There's a storm going outside. This feels like time for podcasting.

And you're back in DC, baby. Back in DC. I missed my studio, missed a thousand degrees humidity or whatever. I don't know how you measure that. Actually, I do know it's dew point.

Let's be honest. Let's be precise. I missed a dew point that was above the 71 or 72 mark at which it it shades into the oppressive range. I was pretending like I didn't know about the meteorology here. I know about it.

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