Cal Newport

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23,606 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6d ago

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

the macro productivity of a firm, which is dollars in versus dollars out, and the sort of internal sense of pseudo productivity. podcast-host

You can amplify the internal massively without really changing or negatively impacting that ratio of dollars going into salaries and dollars going out in terms of revenue that's generated. podcast-host

It's not usually part of the conversation. podcast-host

Even in the areas where LLMs are well-suited, like structured language, like producing computer code, even there, you talk to coders and they're like, it's blah. podcast-host

It saved me time because I would have written something better, but it would have taken me more time. podcast-host

So it's saving me time, but it's not so good. podcast-host

Which I've heard you talk about, right? podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

Ultimately, if our goal is not efficiency, ultimately if our goal is not busyness, you know, if our goal is to live a good life, the factors that matter for that seem either unrelated to what AI offers or in many cases actually in direct conflict. podcast-host

have this thought that when it comes to even the use cases of, podcast-host

that you're talking about where like, okay, sure. podcast-host

If you have a rote thing you need to do in a spreadsheet and like a tool can help you like, sure. podcast-host

Like do that. podcast-host

If you get that out of your way or whatever there, my, my growing stance is yes. podcast-host

Dot, dot, dot. podcast-host

Uh, podcast-host

Once that's been made sufficiently natural or easy, right? podcast-host

Like in other words, it's also not your responsibility to learn how to use like a complicated software development coding harness in order and work out a terminal with skill files to try to get commands from Claude that's going to speak to an API and help remove columns from your spreadsheet. podcast-host

It's okay if you say that would be useful, but I also want to wait until... podcast-host

it's easy, right? podcast-host

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