Cal Newport

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23,606 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 4d ago

Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

Don't underestimate the power of an ideology that tells you that you are the hero of the world. podcast-host

Your Neo and John on and uh you know um John Connor from the Terminator movie mixed with Moses. podcast-host

Don't underestimate the power of that story. podcast-host

More compelling to people than I want to keep my open weight competitors down so my stock is going to be worth a little bit more. podcast-host

I really think there's probably a true believer type of situation going on, which is why I tell people, always, always, always try to counter program what you're hearing from those companies with people podcast-host

from the academic sphere or other comp companies or other countries that aren't as connected to those Silicon Valley futurist method uh ideologies and you hear really different things from them. podcast-host

Also stay off X. podcast-host

X has become it's just engagement farming, rationalist EA doomerism. podcast-host

And the problem is we're in a new media world podcast-host

And in new media, people become we know this podcast-host

So driven by X, and that's where they get their story ideas, and that's how they get their clicks. podcast-host

And so we have all of these new media news operations that are just in um sub stackers and stuff that are just all in on the the EA rationalist Dumerism, because that's what's really big on X and and that's sort of their epistemic reality. podcast-host

And I think it shouldn't be. podcast-host

All right. podcast-host

Enough AI. podcast-host

Uh I like to finish up my Monday releases by summarizing what I'm up to. podcast-host

Jesse, still no Jesse, but he will be back soon. podcast-host

We do miss him. podcast-host

I thought about bringing Jesse Skeleton back, but you know why I don't? podcast-host

Let me be honest about this. podcast-host

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