Cal Newport

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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.

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So like I can go chat with them, right?

And I'm not causing a context shift.

Oh, that person's in their office, the door is shut.

Well, I'm not gonna like knock on their door and interrupt them if I'm just looking to chat.

But when we go to complete virtual,

We don't know who's getting their metaphorical coffee and who has their metaphorical door shut.

And so now everyone is having their context shifted constantly.

It's really this need to switch our attention between so many different things throughout the day that exhausts us mentally.

It's why by two o'clock we can't concentrate anymore.

It's why we end up just going in our email inbox and cherry picking out the messages we can answer real easily because our brain is tapped out.

Our brain is done.

You've exhausted me.

You've run me in this weird context-shifting way.

No mas.

I'm not going to think anymore.

We don't realize we're doing it.

We think, oh, it's just work is hard and I'm tired.

But it's actually us accidentally abusing the way our brain operates.

Yeah.

If you're completely virtual, you can actually have, for example, a coffee break Slack channel.

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