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Deep Questions with Cal Newport
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Deep Questions explores living and working deeply in an increasingly distracted world. Cal Newport answers questions about productivity, focus, and living a meaningful life.
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Latest SummaryMar 31, 2026
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Mar 31, 2026•1h 17m•10 insights•5 min read
How to Find Meaning in a Distracted World (w/ Arthur Brooks) | Cal Newport
- •Depression rates tripled on college campuses in just 11 years—but it's not because life got harder
- •The #1 predictor of anxiety and depression isn't money or hardship—it's this one feeling
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Mar 27, 2026•30m•10 insights•5 min read
Are LLMs a Dead End? (Investors Just Bet $1 Billion on “Yes”) | AI Reality Check | Cal Newport
- •One of AI's pioneers just called LLMs a 'technological dead end'—and investors bet $1 billion he's right
- •Jeff Bezos and Mark Cuban just funded an alternative to ChatGPT that avoids large language models entirely
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Mar 23, 2026•1h 7m•10 insights•5 min read
Why Is AI Making My Job *Worse*? | Cal Newport
- •The $1 trillion productivity lie: 164,000 workers got AI tools and ended up checking email TWICE A MINUTE instead of getting more done
- •Why 'making work easier' is secretly killing your actual output—the pattern that's destroyed every tech tool for the last 20 years
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Mar 17, 2026•55m•10 insights•5 min read
Reduce Your Screentime (5 Simple Steps) | Cal Newport
- •The brutal truth: Your phone went from revolutionary in 2007 to a 'multicolored, garish, distracting pile of exhaustion'
- •Transform your phone into pure text—no colored icons, just monochromatic labels (apps like Dumb Phone make this possible in 10 minutes)
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Mar 13, 2026•33m•10 insights•5 min read
Will AI Destroy the Economy? (According to Economists: No.) | AI Reality Check | Cal Newport
- •One viral article scared the S&P 500 so badly it caused a market dip—but here's what economists actually think
- •The Atlantic compared AI to an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs—Newport breaks down why that's pure fear-mongering
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