Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-03-24 · 70 min · 13,858 words

Ep. 345: Are We Getting Dumber?

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I'm pal Newport, and this Is deep questioned. The show about cultivating a deep life. In a distracted world.

HQ Joined as always by my producer Jesse. Right before we started the microphones. We were talking about One of the two websites

That I run. So I have Calmnewport.com. Which is the website for both my writing and academic career. So it's sort of the website for me as a person, but then the I guess we don't use the word multimedia anymore, but like video and newsletter and podcast has its own home.

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