Ep. 355: Quit Social Media (For Real This Time)

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. Jesse, you notice I changed up our slogan there a little bit? Yeah, I did. I thought you misspoke.

I didn't misspeak. It's been irritating me for years. Writers hate repetition. And rep and all the writers in in the listening audience right now will understand this. The deep questions, the show about cultivating a deep life that repetitions deep.

Can't have deep in two sentences in a row. So I'm trying out depth to try to avoid the excess repetition. Anyone who's ever been through a copy editing process knows REP period. They say they put REP period meaning like repeated use of a word. So what is it?

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