Dr. Cal Newport

My problem is I'll go two, three, four hours without looking at my phone.

And then there'll be text messages on there from conversations that people were trying to start.

And I typically just have to declare text bankruptcy a few times a day.

Like if they really needed me, I guess they would have called.

So I do text, but I'm not considered to be very good at it.

Is it off?

Oh, you mean if I'm writing?

It's nowhere near me.

Yeah.

I mean, it could be anywhere.

It's just not going to be anywhere near me.

So I have in my house two different offices, basically, right?

So there's a home office.

The printer is there.

The filing cabinets are there, like the nice big monitors there, pay taxes, that type of thing.

Then I have a library, and there's no permanent technology in the library, no computer in there, no monitor, no printers, nothing like this.

I have this sort of custom-built desk I had made by a company from Maine that makes desks for college libraries.

That's what they do.

So I had this like custom fit desk to fit into, it's not that big of a space.

That's where I go to write.