Dr. Cal Newport

They're like, okay.

That's reasonable.

Like you have your act together.

So there's this meta benefit of starting to get a little bit more structured about your time and cognitive work is that people will give you more flexibility to work with the better you get at actually working with the resources you have.

As your reputation grows, your autonomy grows.

Yeah, it's pseudo productivity as well.

Like, this is what I have, like visible activity.

And so let's, can we have meetings?

Let's talk, let's hop on calls.

Like that all feels useful, right?

When ultimately it's not.

Like, I'm with you on it.

Like, remember, the reason why everyone wants to talk to me is because not I'm so great at brainstorming meetings.

You know, people are like, this is great.

Like, Andrew's great at brainstorming meetings, so that's why we want to bother him.

No, it's because you were really good at the podcasting you were doing, like the deep thing.

And then that brings in, you know, the better you get at what you do best, the more the world conspires to take away your time to actually work on it.

Like, professors know this well.

Like, pre-tenure, most big universities are pretty good at preaching to professors, but

All that's gonna matter is gonna be your research.