Cal Newport

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?) · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

The onus is on the user. podcast-host

It's like, you are a loser if you don't go out and become essentially like a tech R&D review forum and figure out how to use this. podcast-host

And, you know, what's wrong with saying I'm happy to deploy a tool if and when someone convinces me that it's going to be really valuable in my life, but my default really has to be getting on with productive struggle and producing good stuff. podcast-host

I can't be out there product testing every tool and experimenting and building agent swarms on my open claw and posting about it on X. Like, I actually want to live my life podcast-host

Once the tool is undeniable, then maybe I'll use it for that purpose. podcast-host

But this seems to be an issue here, right? podcast-host

Is like the pressure you got, which the pressure I got was like, you got to just try this. podcast-host

You can't not be using it. podcast-host

You're going to be left behind, which we're used to that rhetoric now. podcast-host

But if you went back 40 years ago and someone talked that way about any consumer products, you'd be like, what are you talking about? podcast-host

It's not my job to figure out why this is useful. podcast-host

You thought it's never going to podcast-host

You thought I was going to order the chicken, but no. podcast-host

Instead, I got the beef and it turned out to be like a turpentine can full of germinating gerbils. podcast-host

You know, some sort of metaphor that. podcast-host

Yeah, I podcast-host

For podcast-host

And this is your second plank, so we can clarify the structure here. podcast-host

So the second plank in your argument for this resistance is the results are average. podcast-host

And you've got to be careful about using tools that just draw you towards the average. podcast-host

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