How Effective Altruism Can Influence Your Lifestyle Center Career Planning

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

How you answer that question is influenced by so many things that are internal to your experience and your values. Victoria, what do you think about David Graver's bullshit jobs theory in relationship to idea as work as a means to an end? It's actually as recline who convinced me to finally read that book. Filled with this mindset there's no centralized control or agreement on reasonable workloads. You just get deeper and deeper until you can just call out uncle.

In this episode Cal – against his better judgment – answers questions on the fly, with no advance plan or preparation. He also does a Deep Dive about the Twitter fog dissipating and discusses something interesting.

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

Deep Dive: What was Twitter anyway? [4:46]

- Is there a difference between passion and calling? [27:09]
- What are the four principles to reimagine knowledge work? [31:50]
- Is movie watching part of the Deep Life? [36:05]
- Does fixed schedule productivity work on a weekly scale? [38:54]
- How does effective altruism fit in value-based lifestyle career planning? [41:01]
- What are Cal’s thoughts on David Graber’s book, “Bull Shit Jobs”? [44:00]
- Do distracted adolescents risk losing the ability to focus as they grow older? [46:57]
- Does slow productivity assist with parenting and professional development? [48:29]

Something Interesting: Rob Drydek’s productivity system [1:00:37]

Links:

nytimes.com/2023/04/18/magazine/twitter-dying.html

Thanks to our Sponsors:

fieldofgreens.com Promo Code: Deep
hensonshaving.com/cal
rhone.com/cal
huel.com/questions

Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.