Cal Newport

A lot more science reportery than I remembered.

It's a lot of like science reporting on like this study came out and this legislation happened, like very much.

It's very more repertorial than the book that inspired it was his previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma.

which is based around four set piece stories.

And it's also, I reread that not long ago as well.

And that's also a good book.

In terms of what I'm up to, again, as I mentioned, I'm in the line edits of my, the book that's coming out next, coming out next spring is called The Deep Life, a one-off book about cultivating a deep life.

Takes all the ideas from the show, puts into a system, step-by-step, boom, now you have it.

This is the source guide for making your life so interesting that your phone will seem less exciting.

I mean, the final line edits, so that's like we've – you go back and forth a lot with writing.

You kind of – as you write, you go back and forth with your editor until you get something that kind of works.

And then there's like sort of higher level notes of like –

work on that here, like chapter by chapter, we need something here.

This doesn't make sense.

Maybe cut this.

And then you get to sort of the line edit piece of the first round of editing where your editor will actually go through and, you know, make particular, let's cut this sentence.

This isn't clear to me, you know, those types of things.

And that's where you do your final, like out loud read of sections two to really try to get the language working.

you hope that's what leads to what's then called the manuscript acceptance.

Like, okay, now we have a manuscript.