Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Hosted by Cal Newport · Cal Newport
4.8from 3,634 ratings
- 467
- Episodes
- 197
- Transcribed
- 3,634
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Deep Questions with Cal Newport
A podcast about human flourishing in a technological world. Hosted by Cal Newport, an MIT-trained computer professor and bestselling author of numerous books on technology and its impacts, including DEEP WORK, DIGITAL MINIMALISM, A WORLD WITHOUT EMAIL, and SLOW PRODUCTIVITY. New episodes weekly.
- Publisher
- Cal Newport
- Category
- education · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
197 of 467 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reading As an Act of Resistance (Notes on Harvard’s Hum 10)
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Better Way to Think About Tech
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Do Hard Things (Featuring: Jerry Seinfeld)
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Reading As an Act of Resistance (Notes on Harvard’s Hum 10)
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I could get a summary from AI. But what they don't understand is the book is the optimal summary. The book is incredibly condensed. If it's a nonfiction book, for example, an expert who knows this world, for he or she to actually convey everything you know about this world would be 100,000 pages. […]
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- Haley Pulli
- Emile Torres
- Brad Stulberg
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,367 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 2,267 ratings
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- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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