Cal Newport

It works.

There's still a lot of editing that happens after this because you still go on the copy editing where you have like professional copy editors getting into like the precise grammar and languages and word repetitions and fact checking.

And we have a professional footnote editor to come in and get all the end notes in the right format.

So there's a lot more editing to come, but it becomes much more lower level and production focused.

So anyways,

I'm hoping to be done with that by the end of the week this comes out.

When this airs, I'll actually be on my way to Asheville where I'm going to hang out with friend of the show, Brad Stolberg, and I'm going to edit in the morning.

I'm staying in some mountain lodge up there in Asheville.

I'm going to edit in the morning.

In the afternoon, we share a trainer, so we're going to train and then think big thoughts about the world of writing.

So that's going to be a cool trip.

So as you hear this, I'm on my way to finish my edits among the crisp mountain air of Asheville, North Carolina.

Um, yeah, I think writing's hard.

Uh, like today I was struggling with, because this type of thing I struggle with, you know, chapter one, right?

Chapter one of the book, uh, here is the, you know, what is our approach?

Here's what the deep life is.

I'm going to kind of get to in the intro, but I'm like, let's get the formal definition of the deep life.

What is the approach we're going to pursue in this book?

And I set up two contrasting approaches.

There's what I say is like the most common model that people think when they think about the deep life is something I call the phase shift model, which is like a singular event.