Cal Newport

This cuts through pseudo productivity.

We no longer care about visible busyness.

We care about this list growing.

And when you have transparent workloads, this also becomes clear because you're like, I know exactly what you're supposed to work on.

Why is this not done?

So it's a really – all these things work together to create a system that is based off of actual value-producing accomplishment and not on just visible signs of busyness, which again in an AI world is just going to collapse into a busyness singularity.

We could do one more.

What else do we have here, Jesse?

Evan reports on his efforts to improve his cognitive fitness.

All right.

So Evan says, I started the deep work process again and feel so much better in my entire life because I have my focus back.

The main things I am doing are landlining and memorizing the Bible.

I have completed all the book of James.

Is there anything else I can use as a mind workout that requires my attention so deeply like memorizing?

A, I like the use of the term landlining, which one of our listeners, I don't know, a few weeks ago, right?

So one of our listeners suggested this idea.

Landlining is the idea of keeping your smartphone plugged in in your kitchen when you're at home.

You treat it like an old-fashioned landline.

You have to ring her on.

You go there if someone calls.