Cal Newport

Go back and see like five years of my writing from the late 2000s.

So we're actually more on the same page on that than he might realize.

But the key thing here is the ideas out there being reacted to.

So, you know, the more I can change vocabulary.

the happier I am for whatever that's worth.

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