Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Why Is AI Making My Job *Worse*? | Cal Newport

March 23, 2026|Original: 1h 7m|10 key insights|5 min read

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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

Email made sending messages 10x faster. So why are workers now drowning in 2x more messages? The counterintuitive trap nobody warns you about

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