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Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport ISBN 9780525536543
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Cal Newport ISBN 9780525536543
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This book by Cal Newport has come up 6 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Cal Newport, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-03-05 and the most recent from 2024-03-11. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology. In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology has transformed from something exciting into something darker. Innovations like smartphones and social media are useful, but many of us are increasingly troubled by how much control these tools seem to exert over our daily experiences, including how we spend our free time and how we feel about ourselves.
“or digital minimalism like oh yeah that okay I kind of know what that means like it's a different different philosophy towards it”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Cal Newport: A professor of computer science at Georgetown University who trained at MIT. He is the best-selling author of books on productivity and focus, including Deep Work and Slow Productivity. Cal Newport explains the neuroscience of focus and gives concrete systems to escape distraction and do deep, high-value work.
“deep work already exists I just put a name to it digital minimalism it's like yeah I'm just putting a name to a Phil”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Cal Newport: Georgetown computer science professor, New Yorker contributor, and bestselling author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Slow Productivity. Cal Newport unpacks slow productivity, obsessing over quality, and resisting algorithm-driven attention economies in favor of long-horizon craft.
“Now, you might know me from some of my recent books, such as Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email.”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Tara Brach, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, and Cal Newport: A compilation episode hosted by Tim Ferriss featuring four guests: Tara Brach (meditation teacher and former clinical psychologist, author of Radical Acceptance, creator of the RAIN practice); Ryan Holiday (author of 13 books and creator of the Daily Stoic); Maria Popova (writer behind The Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings); and Cal Newport (Georgetown CS professor and author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism). A curated podcast buffet where four friends of Tim Ferriss share favorite clips on presence, Stoic questions, reading, and time management.
“Cal is the author of seven books including most recently Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, New Yorker contributing writer, and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Here he interviews host Tim Ferriss for a New Yorker piece revisiting The 4-Hour Workweek. Cal Newport interviews Tim Ferriss about how The 4-Hour Workweek warned of unsustainable knowledge work fifteen years early.
“burkeman comes at it from like a humanist way I kind of come at it from a humanist way too in Digital Minimalism it's about improving your life”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University (PhD from MIT) who researches the theory of distributed systems. He is a New Yorker contributing writer, host of the Deep Questions podcast, and author of seven books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Cal Newport on building a deep life through slow productivity, digital minimalism, craft, and contemplation in an age of distraction.
“in his book digital minimalism he encourages people to find the right amount of social media usage that provides value and joy”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Cal Newport: Computer scientist at Georgetown specializing in distributed-algorithm impossibility results, and bestselling author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. He doesn't use social media and hosts the Deep Questions podcast. Cal Newport unpacks why context-switching destroys focus, how email's hidden workflow wrecks productivity, and why relationships beat hustle.
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