I think the people who struggled with any barriers couldn't separate their personal space from their workspace. So I just to give one example, Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, he looked at a house that's just maybe a block from where I grew up. He did not write in the beautiful carriage house on a half acre of property. He rented space at what was a furnace repair factory,. It's in a more industrialized section on my small town. An incredibly noisy place.
Cal Newport is one of the world’s leading thinkers on how technology affects the way we live, work and think. Cal is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is also New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his three latest: A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Cal is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker and the host of the popular Deep Questions podcast.
In his second appearance on the show, Cal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about how we can improve our workstyles, slow productivity, Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter, and the future of social media.
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