Navigating Deep Work and Career Growth

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). For instructions on submitting your own questions, go to calnewport.com/podcast.


DEEP WORK QUESTIONS:

- Are some people more suited for deep work than others?  [4:54]
- How do I tame post-shutdown excitement?   [8:33]
- How to I deal with ambiguous deep work?  [14:41]
- Can you  (Cal) elaborate on the Friction/Flow/Finalization project pathway?  [17:41] 
- How do you time-block plan in a company obsessed with last minute meetings?  [23:21]


DEEP LIFE QUESTIONS:

- Are you (Cal) a control freak?  [41:16]
- What have you (Cal) learned from the pandemic?  [45:07]
- Would you (Cal) do your CS research and writing if you couldn’t share it?  [51:54]
- How did you (Cal) never get tempted to join a social media platform?  [56:11]
- Is the monastic life the ultimate deep life?  [59:24]



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