Cal Newport

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

But am I in the game?

Am I playing at the professional level?

You have to get that brutal feedback and you need the brutally honest story about how these different worlds work.

Don't write your own story.

You need both of those things going on.

I write about AI quite a bit for the New Yorker right now.

I don't use it a lot yet.

I don't think its current iteration is the iteration in which it's going to have its first major impact

cultural economic impact.

Right now it's like writing carefully crafted prompts into a chat interface.

I'm not as interested in the form of AI where that's what we're doing.

I think it is going to get more integrated into like the work we do and the tools we do in the future.

And when it does, it's going to be unavoidable and just going to make things easier, faster.

And so I'm waiting for that.

I'm not a big believer that unless it's interesting to you as a hobby,

That right now you need to be spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to carefully craft prompts to chat GPT to get it to do something you want to do.

Give it another year for them to have one more iteration of this technology.

And it's going to be like jumping from AltaVista to Google.

Like, oh, now I see how to use this.

It's self-evident why this is useful to me.

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