Ep. 356: How Much Should We Work?

I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating depth in a distracted world. So I'm here in my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer. Jesse, uh, we got a good show ahead of us, Jesse. We got a a deep dive coming up where I'm going to comment on digital work drawing from a decidedly pre-digital source. Got a bunch of good questions.

Um, looking at them now, they're very career focused today. Yeah. It's kind of nice. It's like, it's not really what the deep dive is about, but our questions in case study today, if you're thinking about applying the ideas of the depth principle and career capital to try to take control, like deep life type stuff, you will like our questions today.

And then we have a final segment where I'll be talking about my latest New Yorker article. We'll do a text uh corner segment on it. Just had an article come out last week about AI. So we'll get into that article. As a special bonus for those who make it to the third segment of the show, I uh am also excited to share uh

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