Cal Newport

I remembered when this was 2006, this book came out.

All these ideas were big back then.

It's so non-surprising today.

Like the ideas in that book have been so, because he was successful, have been so well inculcated to our culture that like it didn't, I remember the freshest that book has, which it, you know, doesn't have anymore because like he was successful in changing the way we thought about thinking.

So, but it was good to go back and reread that.

Is it like no processed food and-

Well, his three pieces of advice is eat food, mostly plants, not too much.

But it's a three-part book.

Part one kind of lays out the problem of nutritionism, which is like focusing on individual macro and micronutrients when you're thinking about health as opposed to like thinking about food as a whole.

And then he talks about –

getting beyond nutritionism, and then the third part is like he goes into those specific pieces of advice and actually like gives a lot of advice.

So, you know, it's a very good book if you haven't read it before.

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.