The Nomad Life Is Not Easy, Is It?

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Cal Newport: Muhammad Isaac is a 53-year-old man who moved to Somalia and began camel herding. He says he was bored as an IT administrator in Ottawa, so he decided to do some equivalent of a deep reset. What's important to you? How can I radically realign my life around what's important to me? Cal: For him, reconnecting to a ancient family trade from his homeland that he had left and felt disconnected from, that is pure intention,. A crafting of a life around things that really matter, throwing in a dash of radicalness and doing so.

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DEEP DIVE: A World Without Twitter? [7:28]
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LIVE CALLER: Starting a new company alone [34:28]

- How do I (carefully) convince my employer to embrace Deep Work? [51:48]
- I just quit my job. How do I reset my life? [1:03:36]
- How do I deal with having too much freedom in my job? [1:10:09]
- CALL: Which tool should I bring when I only have room for one? [1:17:53]
- Who does Cal personally admire? [1:23:43]

THREE INTERESTING THINGS:

- A novel solution to cell phones in schools [1:41:57]
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- The age of social media ending. Welcome to my party! [1:47:19]
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- Eat, pray, herd [1:50:26]
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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.