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#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Fundamental Core of Reality, Comma, and Some Advice for Being More Productive at Work

I think our brains draw so much pleasure from the deriving generalized theories and simplifying the universe that we just naturally see that kind of simplicity. So you can say this must be right because it's so predictive. Well, it's not quite predictive because Mercury wobbles a little bit, but I think we have it set,. then you turn out, now Einstein, and then you get bore. It's actually statistical, and yeah, so that would say so.Yeah, that'll be my next book, that'llbe ambitious. The fundamental core of reality, comma, and some advice for being more productive at work.

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