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I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, episode 65. I have no quick announcements this week, but we do have a good show. The Deep Dive is back. We'll be doing a Deep Dive segment on the question of is productivity good or bad, so that should be interesting. I should add, by the way, my current timeline for getting these videos of the deep dives accessible is February. So within the next few weeks, we should soon have videos of all my deep dives and some key questions being posted online. Stay tuned for that. We also, of course, have a lot of good questions that have been asked in our categories of work technology and the deep life, including a question about work that falls between deep and shallow, psychedelics, and convincing friends and family who do not like self-help that maybe they should listen to some self-help. As always, I appreciate the questions. If you want to find out how to submit them, go to calnewport.com/podcast, and I have the instructions there. Also, of course, I also appreciate the subscriptions, ratings, and in particular, reviews. I read all the reviews of the podcast. They make me happy, and it helps spread the lurd. I believe I just used the word lurd there, so you can tell I really am a professional broadcaster. All right, so we've got a good show. Before we get going, though, let's take a brief moment to thank one of the sponsors that makes Deep Questions possible. I am talking about our good friends at Magic Spoon. As I have argued many times on this podcast, sometimes you need a escape. And what better escape than to reach back to that childhood nostalgia for those fun cereals that we all used to eat in the 80s that were rotting our teeth and making us unhealthy? Well, Magic Spoon brings you that experience without the unhealthy aspect. Somehow, this great tasting cereal has zero sugar, 11 grams of protein, and only three net grams of carbs in each serving. It's keto-friendly, gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, low-carb, and GMO-free, as I like to say, all of which are terms that in the 80s when I was eating cereal I did not know exist, so I didn't know what I was missing. But I am glad Magic Spoon has figured out how to make cereal today that satisfies all those needs. You can now build your own custom variety box. You have cocoa, you have fruity, you have the best flavor, which is frosted. You have blueberry plus the newly introduced peanut butter and cinnamon. So you can go to magicspoon.com/Cal to build your own custom variety box and try this today. Be sure to use that promo code cal at checkout and if you do you will get free shipping on your variety pack. Magic Spoon is so confident in their product that it's also backed with a 100% happiness guarantee so if you have a dark heart and do not like it they'll refund your money no questions asked. All right. So that's magicspoon.com/Cal. Use the code Cal for free shipping. The other sponsor I want to thank here is me. In particular, I want to advertise my upcoming book, A World Without Email, that comes out on March 2nd. As I talked about on my newsletter, this is my magnum opus on the topic of technology and its intersection with work. It's philosophical, it's pragmatic, it's controversial. I know if you like this podcast, you'll like that book. If you pre-order it, I really appreciate that. And to show my appreciation, I will be announcing soon a really cool pre-order promo where I don't want to give away too much, but the term email academy is going to be involved. You can get access to this if you pre-order. So if you've already pre-ordered or you are going to pre-order, just hold on to your digital receipt. You can just use the confirmation code off of there. I will be announcing this pre-order campaign soon, but for now, I just want to keep putting on your radar that if you like deep questions, you are going to love A World Without Email.