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Ep. 201: Making a Living Online

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Introduction

i rejected a 12 hundred dollar air conditioner. My old a c w replaced was 20 years old. I believe, if i'm reading the manual correctly, in addition to automatically adjusting the stage of the compressor, this a c unit can also make novel policy prescriptions to fight climate change. It's wired out of the factory for an incredibly complex control panel. They had to be on the phone with technical support a carrier for an hour to figure out basically how to retrograde back the a c so that we could just control it, old style, analogue.

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