Dr. Cal Newport
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They were just coming to the same space and they would work for like, okay, 90 minutes.
And then they would have like a speaker come in or lunch.
So the group cohesion of everyone working deeply at the same time.
Writers retreats are the same way.
We all go to the same house in the middle of nowhere so that we're all just going to encourage each other to write because that's all what everyone's doing here.
Yeah, so social pressure, I'm with you.
I was thinking if I ever needed to, you know,
put a big extension on my house.
That's what I should do.
Just like, okay, pay me money.
Then I will sit there on zoom and do deep work with you.
This is my secret plan.
Working at the library, academic libraries.
Why do people do that?
Right.
Everyone there is working.
I'm a big believer in that.
All right.
Have a shutdown ritual, which clearly demarcates the end of work and the start of the night after work.
And the shutdown ritual, so it has to, you have to close open loops, right?