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Back to SearchEp. 258: Godel’s Deep Life Stack
Episode 258
Do history’s greatest thinkers care about time management? In today’s episode, Cal analyzes the system that the mathematician and philosopher, Kurt G…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 257: Refusing Overwork
Episode 257
Sometimes the most effective way to contain your workload is to simply declare how long you’re willing to work and then refuse to violate your pledge…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 256: Start with Discipline
Episode 256
In Cal’s new “deep life stack” the first layer toward finding more meaning is to develop discipline. Why does this come first? In this episode, Cal d…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 255: The Failure of Cybernetic Productivity
Episode 255
Over the past twenty years, “productivity” has come to be synonymous with using digital tools to speed up non-essential parts of knowledge work. As c…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 254: The Laws of Less
Episode 254
Some of the most interesting and impactful people in the world build their work around a commitment to doing only a few things very well. No one reme…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 253: Making Time for What Matters (w/ Laura Vanderkam)
Episode 253
In this episode, Cal is joined by Laura Vanderkam (author of Tranquility by Tuesday and co-host of the Best of Both Worlds podcast). Cal and Laura ta…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 252: The Deep Life Stack
Episode 252
How do you leave a life of superficial distraction and cultivate something deeper? In today’s episode, Cal describes “The Deep Life Stack,” an approa…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap
Episode 251
Productivity YouTube is filled with breathless videos about optimizing systems and squeezing every ounce of speed out of your common habits. But does…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 250: In Defense of Thinking
Episode 250
The art of thinking – plain, old-fashioned, hard concentration on useful ideas – is rapidly vanishing as our culture recasts humans as the custodians…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 249: The Good Enough Job (w/ Simone Stolzoff)
Episode 249
Do you live to work or work to live? In this episode, Cal talks with author Simone Stolfzoff about his provocative new book, THE GOOD ENOUGH JOB. Cal…
2 years, 9 months ago