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Ep. 141: Is the Era of Social Media Ending?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Computer Science - Was It All in on Computer Science?

In the entire pre ten yer period as an assistant professor at georgetown, i wrote one book. That's about all i did write. I have something like 60 to 70 pereviewed computer science publications that have gathered three to four thousand citations. It wasn't really until a couple of years after deep work tat probably the public intellectual aspect of my work began to grow large enough that it actually had a footprint that mattered. Once deep work started selling, once i then signed the big deal for digital minimalism and a world without emal then it became something that was probably more important than writing books.

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