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Deep Questions
Cal Newport
“amazing podcast called deep questions that i highly recommend”
“he's a host of an amazing podcast called deep questions that i highly recommend for anyone who wants to improve their productive life”— Lex Fridman
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
“he's writing like his book deep work for example has guided how i strive to approach productivity and life in general”— Cal Newport
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Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
“in his book digital minimalism he encourages people to find the right amount of social media usage that provides value and joy”— Lex Fridman
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A World Without Email
Cal Newport
“He has a new book out called a world without email where he argues brilliantly i would say that email is destroying productivity”— Lex Fridman
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
“I published this book so good they can't ignore you which came out in 2012 so like right as i began as a professor”— Cal Newport
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Clubhouse
Clubhouse
“clubhouse is something very different and i've encountered it in other places discord and so on that's voice only communication”— Lex Fridman
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Discord
Discord
“on discord it was so fascinating i have this discord server that would have hundreds of people in a room together”— Lex Fridman
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Twitter Spaces
“twitter spaces so twitter is creating a competitor that's going to likely destroy clubhouse because they just have a much larger user base”— Lex Fridman
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Substack
Substack
“i think like sub stack for example what they're going to pull out of twitter among other things is the audience”— Cal Newport
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Trello
Trello
“in the different groups i profiled use things like trello or basecamp or asana or flow”— Cal Newport
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Basecamp
Basecamp
“in the different groups i profiled use things like trello or basecamp or asana or flow”— Cal Newport
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Asana
Asana
“in the different groups i profiled use things like trello or basecamp or asana or flow”— Cal Newport
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Acuity Scheduling
Acuity
“our schedule wants an acuity like there's there's a lot of tools out there the key is not to think about it in terms of what tool”— Cal Newport
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You've Got Mail
Nora Ephron (inferred)
“now you're back in that meg ryan movie like you got mail where it's like all right load this up and you wait for the modem”— Cal Newport
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
“have you read neil postman at all have you read like amusing ourselves to death it was a social critic technology critic”— Lex Fridman
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The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
“did you read the pale king it goes deep on boredom it means it's like uncomfortable it's like an uncomfortable meditation on boredom”— Lex Fridman
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
“karen armstrong wrote this great book called the case for god she's very interesting she was a catholic nun”— Cal Newport
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks
“his second mountain wrote the character about these books or he has this whole premise of there's like this professional phase”— Cal Newport
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Computerphile
Brady Haran (inferred)
“what is that computer file and number file these youtube channels there's channels i watch on like chess exceptionally popular”— Lex Fridman
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Numberphile
Brady Haran (inferred)
“what is that computer file and number file these youtube channels there's channels i watch on like chess exceptionally popular”— Lex Fridman
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