Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown and the author of several influential books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Slow Productivity. His newsletter extends the arguments of those books into ongoing commentary on work culture, technology’s impact on attention, and how to build a meaningful career in a distracted world.
What to Expect
Essays on focused work, the costs of hyperconnectivity, productivity philosophy, and the structural forces that make good work hard to do.
Who It’s For
Knowledge workers, academics, and anyone who wants to get stuff done.
Frequency: Weekly