Cal Newport
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23,606 appearances
41 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?) · 14 Sep 2026
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And they ended up making a lot of things worse.
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Like this is a tale that happens again and again.
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I mean, I wrote a whole book about how this happened with email.
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Like email was like, yeah, this is great.
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I want to use the fax machine.
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My voicemail is annoying.
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But we led to our life without thinking about it.
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What else is going to happen if we put in low friction digital communication?
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And it really broke work.
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It made knowledge work into a sort of constant stream of stressful catch-up on an inbox that makes us switch our contacts once every two minutes, makes it impossible to think clearly, burns us out.
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And we stumbled into that, unforced error.
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Social media on smartphones was similar.
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It's like, I don't know, this seems cool, right?
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Like it's novel and it's fun and I can see the relationship status of my high school friends.
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girlfriend.
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And like, this is kind of the Arab spring, like how stuff is going on.
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I kind of felt cool.
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And, you know, you look up 10 years after that and you're like, Oh my God, my brain is rotting as tick tock is showing me nonsense.
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It's like algorithmically optimized to create chemical reactions in my brain.
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It's digital math, right?
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