Cal Newport

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1,088 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Liz Moody Podcast · How To Work Less This Summer (And Still Get MORE Done) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

I also wanna see what life feels like without those things.

What do I pick up?

What do I spend time on instead?

I wanna sample life without it.

And then when it's done, you say, okay, what do I wanna bring back?

And the metaphor here is like how Marie Kondo would clean a closet.

She would say, empty everything out of that closet and then just put back in the stuff that sparks joy.

That's very different than taking a very messy closet and just bringing in organizers and trying to like move things around and make piles.

She said, no, just put back in what you really need.

That's what we need to do with our digital lives.

Instead of just trying to bring in better organizers, like, well, I can have rules about when I use Instagram versus TikTok and whether I do it here or there, just take it all out of the closet.

And then see like, okay, what do I really need back in my life?

What happens is when people do this is typically not full abstention from all social media, but a greatly reduced social media footprint or the social media they bring back, they know why they're bringing it back.

So it's easier to put fences around.

If you're the artist who brings back Instagram because you get inspiration from

by following the photos posted by other artists you like, you realize I don't need Instagram on my phone.

It takes me 20 minutes to see the new artwork posted each week by the artist I follow.

It can be on my laptop.

I can do it on Friday.

It could be a ritual with a glass of wine.

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