Cal Newport

All right, so there we go, Jesse.

I got all the tape off this time.

Yeah.

That's my protest against technology is using painter's tape and a notebook.

It's like our main graphical element on this show.

Yes, I always have new terms.

Yeah, so for the Deep Life book I'm working on,

which I'm the final edits for the pre-copy, like just the main edits, the final edits are being done.

You know, as you hear this episode, by the end of the week, you're hearing this episode in theory, I will have submitted the sort of polished version of that book.

Yeah.

That's if lifestyle, and you've heard these on the show before lifestyle centric planning, the phase shift model of the deep life has been worse than the lifestyle centric approach to the deep life.

I get into lifestyle visions, lifestyle properties, you know,

Keystone Habits, things like property scraping, residence isolation.

I got a lot of terms in that book.

It's a very practical book, which is the way I'm trying to write it.

And then the new book idea I have, if I end up writing it about thinking, is all going to be about cognitive fitness, which is a term that I'm also really trying to promote.

I was actually brought that that idea is kind of making the rounds.

There's an Atlantic piece last week where the president of Amherst, I think, was basically reacting to my idea of cognitive fitness.

He thought it sounded too grim and that college would be more fun.

But I've actually written tons of stuff about how to make the intellectual life of college fun.