"the following is a conversation with cal newport he's a friend and someone who's writing like his book deep work for example has guided how i strive to approach productivity and life in general he doe..."

"let's start with a big question so i mean it's my term for when you're focusing without distraction on a cognitively demanding task which is something we've all done but we had never really given it a..."

"the sort of prerequisite for basically uh you say knowledge work but basically any kind of skill acquisition any kind of major effort in this world can we break that apart a little bit yeah so so a ke..."

"book but how do you integrate deep work into your life what are different scheduling strategies that you would recommend just at a high level yeah what are different ideas there well i mean i'm a big ..."

"deadlines can we um okay so this is like a therapy session uh it's uh why it seems like i don't i only get stuff done that has deadlines and so the one of the implied powerful things about time blocki..."

"but here okay here's the complicated thing though like you could think about in your own life starting the podcast as one of these just cool opportunities that you put on yourself right yeah like you ..."

"on a social network last night uh in clubhouse yeah i don't know if you've heard of it i was wait i have to ask you about this because i was invite i'm invited to do a clubhouse i don't know what that..."

"the reason i brought it up is we uh there's a room there's an entire club actually on burnout and i brought you up and i brought david goggins as the process i go through which is you know my passion ..."

"like the characters in that are just driven to the like extremes of i just bought three books on boredom the other day uh so now i'm really interested in this topic because i was anxious about my book..."

"called digital minimalism and one of the things i was recommending that people do is basically a 30-day fast but from digital personal entertainment social media online videos anything that captures u..."

"social media as a medium changed the cultural standards and i mean it in a have you read neil postman at all have you read like amusing ourselves to death it was a social critic technology critic um a..."

"that's right there i wrote a book you wrote uh yet another amazing book uh world without email maybe one way to enter this discussion is to ask what is the hyperactive hive mind which is the concept y..."

"whole villain is this hyperactive hive mind workflow the tool is fine i don't want the tool to go away but i want to replace the hyperactive my workflow i think this is going to be one of the biggest ..."

"a tough question uh for you know from the computer science perspective we often over optimize so you create processes and you okay just like you're saying it's so pleasurable to increase uh in the lon..."

"the parts that you can't automate and turn into a process so how many parts like that do you think should remain in a perfect world and uh for those parts where email is still useful what do you recom..."

"i love the comedian world they've been shaking up i don't know if you listen to joe rogan all those folks they kind of um are doing something interesting for mit and and academia they're shaking up th..."

"speaking of which i got to ask you about computer science that's right i do some of that uh so i mean a lot of it a lot of your work is what inspired this deep thinking about productivity from all the..."

"you have of many papers but the one that caught my eyes smooth analysis of dynamic networks in which you write a problem with the worst case perspective is that it often leads to extremely strong lowe..."

"this whole world of deep learning from a perspective of theory what do you make of this whole discipline of the success of neural networks of how to do science on them are you excited by the possibili..."

"system okay we talked about your love for proving that something is impossible so there's quite a few still open problems and complexity of algorithms uh so let me ask does p equal np probably not pro..."

"you're kind of implying that mathematics it almost feels like a kind of weird evolutionary tree that ultimately leads back to some kind of ancestral a few fundamental ideas that all are just like they..."

"can i ask you just if it's possible to do an overview and just some brief comments of wisdom on the process of publishing a book what's that process entail what are the different options and what's yo..."

"case analysis here is one day you're pretty young now but that's not going to last very long you're gonna die one day is that something you think about a little bit are you afraid of death well i'm up..."

"to study and understand the model of the atom by just looking at experiments and trying to understand what's going on like the great religions of the world were basically figuring out how do we make s..."

"we like act as if this is true do these rituals have these actions or whatever post enlightenment a lot of that got once we learned about enlightenment we grew these suspicions around religion that ar..."

"like this beautiful sophisticated theory which actually matches how a lot of great theologians have you know thought about it um but then when you come forward in time yeah maybe it's evolution i mean..."

"maybe maybe what replaces honestly like maybe what replaces religion is a return to religion but in this sort of more sophisticated i mean if you went back yeah i mean it's the issue with like a lot o..."

"but that's a complicated thing live as if this is true because if you especially if you're not a theologian to say uh yeah this is not true in an enlightenment sense but i'm living as if it kind of ta..."

"spit out 42. i thought it was 27. yeah this is uh as you know i've been a huge fan uh so are a huge number of people that i've spoken with so they've been telling me i absolutely have to talk to you t..."