Cal Newport

I'm normally like the very, very kind of staid professor, New Yorker writer, just like, well, on the one hand, on the other, you bring this out of me.

I love it.

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I mean, I think part of what I noticed was the present was crazy to me and no one else recognized it.

So it was less even predicting the future.

I feel like there was a time...

God, it's like 10 years ago now where I was looking around and yeah, saying two things.

One, social media doesn't make sense.

Why are we all pretending like this is at the center of democracy and civic life and all business?

We all have to be on here all the time.

And two, email doesn't make sense.

not what was going to happen in the future.

I'm just like looking at the way we're working today with email and Slack and Teams was coming.

Like this completely does not make sense.

You're switching your context once every two or three minutes.

This is a terrible way to actually use your brain.

So I never thought of myself as predicting the future as much as just telling people what was going on then, then it makes sense.