Cal Newport

speaker

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

Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

We don't keep track of who's working on what.

We don't have, okay, here's how we organize our work.

It's really ambiguous and autonomous and obfuscated.

This can be a source of a lot of problems.

It's what allows people, for example, to become really overloaded because no one knows how much you're working on and everyone's just throwing work at everyone else.

But you can, in like a judo move, take advantage of that reality to your advantage because you can subtly pull back for a month.

No one notices.

There's not a scoreboard somewhere where there's like, you've done seven units of work in June, but you only did six units of work in July.

No, it's all just sort of like people are doing meetings and doing things and no one really knows.

So you can leverage the obfuscation of office work to subtly have some seasonality in your work to say, you know, December before like the holidays, people aren't really having a lot of meetings.

I'm going to really pull back and then I'm going to make a big January, but then I'm going to cycle back for two weeks at the beginning of March.

you have a lot more control over that than you think.

You don't announce it.

You don't put new rules into place.

You don't wave a flag and say, here's what I'm doing.

But you can cycle a lot within knowledge work because no one really knows what anyone else is doing.

Now, if you down cycle for six months or a year,

which basically just becomes quiet quitting, it'll get noticed eventually, right?

So it can't be like, okay, 2025, I'm just not gonna work very hard.

And then 2026, I will, that'll get noticed.

Showing 581–600 of 1,088 · page 30 of 55