Cal Newport
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I apply the skills.
I'm not afraid of cognitive strain.
You're in the absolute best position in our economy, right?
You can write your own ticket, but you have to be willing to
to go into a circumstance of like, this is the only world I know.
Academia is, what did you publish?
That's all that matters.
It's all we care about.
What did you publish?
Book writing?
How many copies did your last book sell?
That's all that matters.
There's no, you know what though?
He answered our publisher email so quickly, so let's give him another deal, folks.
No, it's exactly how many dollars did you make us last time?
That's what we care about for the next time.
So it's a scary world.
where you're being held accountable.
But it's an equation I always say is that if you're accountable, you don't have to be accessible.
If you're like, I can point to this is the value I produced and I'm killing it for you, then I don't answer emails, I don't go to these meetings, I don't do 50 sort of things.