#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
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(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(08:24) – Deep work<br />
(13:10) – Focus<br />
(18:52) – Time blocking<br />
(25:47) – Deadlines<br />
(35:22) – Do less, do better, know why<br />
(38:04) – Clubhouse<br />
(52:07) – Burnout<br />
(58:34) – Boredom<br />
(1:06:19) – Quit social media for 30 days<br />
(1:16:13) – Social media<br />
(1:41:21) – How email destroyed our productivity at work<br />
(1:51:07) – How we fix email<br />
(1:58:09) – Over-optimization<br />
(2:02:23) – When to use email and when not to<br />
(2:10:06) – Podcasting<br />
(2:14:42) – Alan Turing proving the impossible<br />
(2:18:41) – Fragility of math in the face of randomness<br />
(2:27:30) – Neural networks<br />
(2:36:16) – What will the P=NP proof look like?<br />
(2:39:55) – Is math discovered or invented?<br />
(2:44:02) – Book publishing<br />
(2:54:09) – Love<br />
(2:57:30) – Death<br />
(3:00:26) – Meaning of life</p>