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Cal Newport is a computer science professor and the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work. He writes about technology and the way it can both support and impe...
What can an obscure theory of industrial productivity teach us about producing better results in a distracted world? In this episode, Cal is...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode also at: youtube.com/calnewportmedia 0:00 Is AI About to Aut...
In his recent New York Times essay, Cal argued for a “cognitive fitness” revolution to resist the onslaught of digital tools degrading our a...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia 0:00 What has *Actually* Happen...
Is developing discipline one of the most effective bulwarks against the constant flood of distraction we face daily? And if so, what’s the b...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Today's episode on YouTube: youtube.com/calnewportmedia 0:00 What’s Really Going on wit...
Ep. 400: Should I Embrace “Slow Technology”? If there was one word to describe modern digital tools, it would be “fast.” But not everyone th...
AI Reality Check: Is AI Stealing Entry-Level Jobs? Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube....
It’s been a decade since the original publication of DEEP WORK. Do its ideas still hold in 2026? This is the question Cal tackles in today’s...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia ACT #1: Look Closer at the Arti...
Here’s a key question: Did technology like smartphones make us miserable, or were we already miserable and smartphones made it worse? To hel...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia SUB QUESTION #1: What is Yan Le...
A new study finds that for many workers, AI increases shallow efforts while decreasing time focusing on what really matters. This is not the...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia STORY #1: Did an AI Agent Email...
Remember how much we loved our iPhones when they first came out? Can we get back to that relationship with these devices? In this episode, C...
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your qu...
Do you need social media? Which services? For what purposes? These are complicated questions and in today’s episode Cal proposes a simple ro...
AI Reality Check: Did the LLM Job Apocalypse Begin Last Week? Cal Newport takes a closer look at recent AI news. Below are the topics covere...
It’s hard to live deeply in a distracted world if you don’t have control over how you spend your time. This goal requires a planning system...
Last month, the Atlantic reported that film students are now struggling to sit through entire films. In this episode, Cal argues that this i...
There remains a gap between the production values of professional streaming services like Netflix and independent content that appears on pl...
Is there something rotten in the state of AI reporting at the moment? In the ideas segment of this episode, Cal details three common traps i...
Everyone knows that excessive smartphone use can be harmful. But the question we don’t ask enough is what the advantages are of not using th...
It’s natural to feel ambition, as we’re wired to find great satisfaction in accomplishing hard goals. But what impact has the internet had o...
Despite some initial skepticism, Jonathan Haidt’s crusade against kids using smartphones has been more or less completely vindicated. Which...
Last year, when columnist Paul Krugman left the NYT, it seemed like yet another example of the traditional media crumbling. But Krugman, as...
Ep 386: Was 2025 a Great or Terrible Year for AI? (w/ Ed Zitron) 2025 was a year that was saturated in AI news, from Deep Seek, through clai...
In this replay of a classic episode from March 2024, Cal discusses his transformative experience using a small analog notebook to tackle a c...
In our annual holiday episode, Cal tackles one of the questions he’s asked most often: What should I read? But with a twist. He recommends s...
Earlier this fall, the activist, novelist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth published an anti-technology polemic called “Against the Machine.” T...
Last month, Derek Thompson published an intriguing essay that made waves in technology criticism circles. It was titled: “Everything is Tele...
In today’s episode, Cal reviews some of his favorite advice from legendary writers (plus a bonus piece of advice from his own craft). Within...
There has been a lot of loose talk online recently about the capabilities of existing AI tools. In this episode, Cal reacts to a specific re...
When companies began instituting return-to-office plans after the pandemic, a disproportionate number of women chose instead to leave the wo...
We often talk on this show about how digital devices undermine our ability to consume more complicated and meaningful ideas. But what about...
Techno-philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky recently went on Ezra Klein's podcast to argue that if we continue on our path toward superintelligent...
How do you escape a world where constant digital distractions and darkness threatens to pull you down? Maybe take a page out of Abraham Linc...
Ep. 375: Did OpenAI Just Kill Social Media? OpenAI has been making waves recently with their release of their Sora 2 video generation model,...
It’s hard to cultivate a deep life when you cannot go more than a few minutes without checking your phone. In this episode, Cal looks closer...
In 2023, I published an episode about resetting your life that became one of my most popular. In the years since, multiple major podcasters...
Last week, it was announced that Oracle would take over operation of TikTok in the US. One of the primary reasons proposed for this deal is...
In this episode of IN-DEPTH, Cal is joined by Dr. Brian Keating, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UCSD, and one of the...
We seem to be stuck in a purgatory when it comes to the worst of the social media platforms. We know they’re not great, but it’s hard to mus...
A recent study called into question a core assumption about the generative AI revolution: that these tools, at the very least, will make us...
IQ scores had been steadily rising since WWII. But, more recently, this phenomenon has stopped. Since 2010, we’ve actually been getting dumb...
In this episode of IN-DEPTH, Cal is joined by bestselling author and podcaster, Tim Ferriss. Tim rocketed to prominence with his 2007 book,...
A 22-year-old made a splash recently when he published a Wall Street Journal op-ed claiming that work-life balance makes you mediocre. He we...
In recent years, it’s been hard not to react to the possibilities of generative AI without a mixture of euphoria or dread. But after OpenAI’...
In this replay of one of the more popular episodes from the Deep Questions archives, originally aired in August ,2023, Cal explores some of...
Why do we end up entangled with tools that don’t have our best interests in mind? How can we fix this situation? In this episode, Cal dives...