Deep Questions with Cal Newport

By Cal Newport

Ep. 38: Habit Tune-Up: Daily vs. Weekly Planning, Supercharging Home Offices, and Taming Demanding Jobs

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Published October 22, 2020 10:00am

In this mini-episode, I answer audio questions from listeners asking for advice about how best to tune-up their productivity and work habits in a moment of increased distraction and disruption.

You can submit your own audio questions at speakpipe.com/calnewport.

Here are the topics we cover: 

• The difference between daily and weekly planning [10:08]
• Fighting shallow work in medicine. [16:44]
• On the value of taking off a work day each week. [24:14]
• Maximizing home offices. [30:29]
• Scheduling deep work with a chronic illness [43:08]
• Taming jobs with large hour demands. [49:32]

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