Cal Newport

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · The Truth About Brain Rot · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, so here's the thing, Mika, that whole period where you had a lot of philosophers thinking about the mind, a period we could start with like Descartes podcast-host

Yeah, we'll start with uh you know Descartes, I think therefore I am. podcast-host

Um and through the eighteenth century philosophers, you know, we we got Kant, you get Heidegger, et cetera. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

They were sort of overshadowed in the 20th century once we got psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. podcast-host

So, like once we actually started studying the brain itself, we stopped thinking about cognition in the sort of abstract philosophical sense and started thinking about it more as like an actual human activity that could be measured, modeled, and bounded. podcast-host

Uh, so we don't podcast-host

We don't podcast-host

refer to this, these types of analyses as much, it seems, anymore, when we think about thinking. podcast-host

So probably I won't talk a lot about that in my book, but I don't know. podcast-host

I'm still early. podcast-host

So maybe I will. podcast-host

All right, we have a note here from Anonymous. podcast-host

Uh he says with regards to your September seventh episode podcast-host

About your twenty twenty six fall productivity system. podcast-host

Could you speak to the difference between your strategic plan and your vision document, please? podcast-host

Or are they the same thing? podcast-host

I had the impression from past podcasts and articles that your strategic seasonal plans tend to be quite lengthy, whereas his vision documents seem to be very simple and reduced. podcast-host

Okay, so it's a good question. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

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