Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-05-12 · 70 min · 13,913 words

Ep. 352: It’s Okay to Slow Down

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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 as always by my producer Jesse. Jesse, I'm a little jealous. I For whatever, I don't know how I came across this.

I saw a video tour of Adam Carolla's podcast studio. Okay. It's in a converted warehouse in Burbank and it has five vintage race cars that are in like a display that looks like a car museum, like with vintage signs and uh paraphernalia from like the eras in which the cars are in or whatever. I think we have to up our game. We have uh like the Slovakian version of digital minimalism up on our wall.

He has five race cars. So we got I don't know what we would have in our in our version of like a very large converted warehouse. That's the problem. I don't know. Or we could put my truck in there.

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