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

I don't think it's self-evident for a lot of people yet.

I mean, I think it's like saying in the late 1980s, are the winners going to be people who are adept at using personal computers?

And it's like, well, to some sense, yes, you're going to have to use a personal computer in the world of work.

They're going to become ubiquitous.

But on the other hand, it's not going to be that hard to learn.

Everyone's going to be given a computer and you're going to have to figure it out.

There's not some special prep you had to do in 1989 to...

to be ready to be using Windows in 1993, your gateway computer at your desk.

It wasn't that hard to learn, like wait till the time comes.

Often the early forms of the technologies that have a big impact on the world of work are not in the form factor in which they spread.

So you can spend a lot of energy learning the technology in its early form, and it's not going to be relevant.

So like if you were really early on personal computers, for example, and you correctly predicted, everyone's going to use one of these things in work.

What did early personal computers look like?

Well, for one thing, you spent most of your time writing your own computer programs.

And guess what?

We use computers everywhere now.

No one programs them anymore.

We invented operating systems and it got much easier.

So I'm very interested in AI.

But I think the way it's going to affect our lives is going to be obvious in the way that Google was obvious in the way that email was obvious.

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