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Ep. 58: Habit Tune-Up: Clarifying Task Organization, Graduate Student Advice, and My Research Workflow

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Non Fiction Book Writing - Do You Write the Book First?

If you want to submit your own audio question, that is, speak pipe dot com slash ca, newport, the word speak, s p e a k, followedb the word pipe, p i p e slash kal newport. You can record questions straight from your browser. For non fiction book writing, no, you don't write the book first. You first land an agent. So if you can't get an agent, you're not going to sell the books. There's no reason for you to be rectly sending things to publishers. They know the agents. The agents tell them what they have available. That's how this world, for the most part, works

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