Ep. 354: The Workload Fairytale

I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world. Here on my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse. Jesse, we're doing something different. Usually the video version of this podcast, we start with the deep dive. Our audio listeners get to hear a little chatter ahead of time.

Well, we're putting this opening chatter on video as well on YouTube episode 354 because there was something I came across that I felt like I just had to share with the viewers and listeners because it's making me so happy. So I don't know if you you know about this trend, Jesse, but there's this big trend where people sell fake books. Yep. Um sometimes they'll use AI to write like a 20 page whatever.

Uh and sometimes they don't even bother, right? They just put up fake titles. There's a lot of books are like similar to deep work that are out there this or that. Well I came across one of these that was so fantastic. And it's made me so happy.

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