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Cal Newport is a computer scientist who also writes about productivity. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (08:24) - Deep work
  (13:10) - Focus
  (18:52) - Time blocking
  (25:47) - Deadlines
  (35:22) - Do less, do better, know why
  (38:04) - Clubhouse
  (52:07) - Burnout
  (58:34) - Boredom
  (1:06:19) - Quit social media for 30 days
  (1:16:13) - Social media
  (1:41:21) - How email destroyed our productivity at work
  (1:51:07) - How we fix email
  (1:58:09) - Over-optimization
  (2:02:23) - When to use email and when not to
  (2:10:06) - Podcasting
  (2:14:42) - Alan Turing proving the impossible
  (2:18:41) - Fragility of math in the face of randomness
  (2:27:30) - Neural networks
  (2:36:16) - What will the P=NP proof look like?
  (2:39:55) - Is math discovered or invented?
  (2:44:02) - Book publishing
  (2:54:09) - Love
  (2:57:30) - Death
  (3:00:26) - Meaning of life

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