Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-03-31 · 71 min · 14,301 words

Ep. 346: Getting Smarter in a Dumb World

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

HQ Joined as always. By my producer Jesse. Yes, we got a good show. I'm going to uh revisit what we talked about last week.

And go deeper on my advice. We got some good questions. And then because I can't help myself We do another AI tech corner. Sounds good. It's not always within the flow of the advice we're giving, but I've just been reading and thinking and talking to a lot of people about AI recently. And I don't have anyone to talk to about this, so I'm holding you, my audience, hostage to hear

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