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Ep. 344: You Are Not a Cog

2025/3/17
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通过深度工作和数字极简主义等概念，推动人们重新思考工作方法和技术使用方式。
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Cal Newport: 我在本书中探讨了如何通过提升个人能力和有效的时间管理来实现生活方式的转变。我最初的写作方向是探讨时间管理和生产力文化，但后来发现读者更关心的是如何利用时间来过上深度生活。因此，我重新调整了写作方向，重点关注如何克服时间管理的挑战，并构建一个适合个人需求的时间管理系统。这个系统并非复杂且难以坚持，而是基于最小化可行性产品（MVP）的理念，从最简单的系统开始，逐步完善。本书的每个章节都包含大量实用且原创的观点和方法，旨在帮助读者高效地利用时间，过上更有意义的生活。 Jesse: 作为节目的制作人，我参与了本书的创作过程，并对Cal的写作思路和观点提供了反馈。我帮助Cal理清了写作思路，并对书稿的结构和内容提出了建议。

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Cal discusses the challenges he faced while writing his latest book, including finding the right voice and structuring chapters to be information-dense.
  • Cal Newport shares his writing timeline and challenges faced during the process.
  • He initially discarded the first draft as the voice wasn't right.
  • Cal's wife played a significant role as a sounding board in his writing process.
  • He aims to make each chapter capable of being a standalone book.
  • Cal focuses on making the book information-dense, opposite of the typical criticism of advice books.

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Modern knowledge work jobs should be cushy gigs. Fixed hours, air conditioning, no hard manual labor, flexibility. So why are we so often burnt out and what can we do about this reality? In this episode, Cal draws a lesson from an unexpected corner of computer science, computer security research, about how we can fix some of the big problems of work in a digital age. He then answers listener questions and returns once again to the topic of AI in a final tech corner segment.

 

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Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo)

 

Video from today’s episode:  youtube.com/calnewportmedia)

 

Deep Dive: You Are Not a Cog [11:00]

 

  • Should I break my large tasks into many small ones? [38:18]

  • How will AI affect living the deep life? [42:47]

  • How can I say “no” to more incoming requests? [48:14]

  • Should an architect take on broader roles that don’t necessarily add to career capital? [52:03]

  • Can a nurse implement time blocking? [54:33]

  • Can a Kansan system work across all departments without being overly complex? [58:11]

  • CALL: Organizing the details of a Trello board [1:03:19]

 

CASE STUDY: Lifestyle centric value based planning for a young family [1:07:58]

 

TECH CORNER: AGI is not Super-intelligence [1:15:35]

 

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at calnewport.com/slow)

Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/)

Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba?)

medium.com/@tony.infisical/password-requirements-are-still-confusing-in-2023-also-heres-our-flavor-44ce03a3255c)

youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJMxh68RGI)

 

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