A brief book update: I wanted to share that Slow Productivity debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list last week! Which is ... Read more The post ChatGPT Can’t Plan. This Matters....
I know it’s been a minute since I’ve published one of my normal essays. I’ll be returning to these soon as the chaos of the ... Read more The post Come See Me Saturday in DC + TikTok Fal...
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My podcast producer recently turned me onto a show called Acquired, which features its co-hosts, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, diving deep into the backstories ... Read more The post How th...
https://calnewport.com/how-the-acquired-podcast-became-a-sensation/
In 1951, Abraham Joshua Heschel published a monograph titled simply, The Sabbath. It consisted of ten short chapters, comprising of less than a hundred total ... Read more The post Heschel on ...
It’s hard to believe that we’re less than two months away from the publication of my new book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment ... Read more The post My new book: Slow...
Someone recently forwarded me an essay from a blogger named Henrik Karlsson. It opens with an admission: “When I started writing online, the advice I ... Read more The post On Slow Writing ...
One of the least understood components of my time-block planner is the “daily metrics” box that tops every pair of planning pages. Given that we’ve ... Read more The post On Metrics and ...
In the fall of 2016, I wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that pushed back against the conventional wisdom that social media was ... Read more The post Standing Up to Technology appeared f...