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Deep Questions with Cal Newport

A podcast about human flourishing in a technological world. Hosted by Cal Newport, an MIT-trained computer professor and bestselling author of numerous books on technology and its impacts, including DEEP WORK, DIGITAL MINIMALISM, A WORLD WITHOUT EMAIL, and SLOW PRODUCTIVITY. New episodes weekly.

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Said on Deep Questions with Cal Newport

“Paradoxically, if you keep adding big, deep work projects to your plate, eventually you get a log jam where you can't make progress on any deep work project… Once you say yes to a big project, you're saying yes to a thousand emails. You're saying yes to 25 meetings. You're saying yes to 16 conversations per week in the hallway.” — Cal Newport, Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Anthropic is obsessed with recursive self-improvement. That is not some computer science idea. That's not an engineering idea. It's an idea that was latched onto by futurists in the late 80s and early 90s as a way of being able to make predictions about superintelligent AI without having to do engineering.” — Cal Newport, Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Many people in Silicon Valley don't even call themselves transhumanists. But that's for the same reason that I've never publicly stated I'm a round earther, right? It's just like, what else would I be? Obviously, I'm that. So transhumanism really is the water that people in Silicon Valley swim in. It's the air that they breathe.” — Emile Torres, Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Emile Torres · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's sort of like if someone were to be impressed that I woke up this morning and I prophesized, I will soon have a cup of coffee. And then amazingly, I got up, I made a cup of coffee and I drank it. So it was like, wow, that's incredible that you accurately predicted what was going to happen.” — Emile Torres, Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Emile Torres · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Star Trek is actually a good example: they're not friends with the computer. They're not having conversations with the computer. They're just using spoken language to say what they want to do as efficiently as possible.” — Cal Newport, Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Deep Questions with Cal Newport is hosted by Cal Newport , Jesse Miller , Nate Mechler and Jay Kerstens .

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