Episode-by-episode discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport — do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of Atomic Podcasts.
2 episodes listed below. All 12 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The third principle, and the one that makes the first two safe. We go through why quality is the leverage that lets you do less, plus Newport on taste — how to develop it deliberately, and why your own is the ceiling on your work.
The book closes by asking you to put something at stake. We cover Newport's final proposition — the commitment that forces quality — and his closing argument about what a career actually gets measured by in the end.
We discuss it chapter by chapter, but nothing replaces reading it. This is an Amazon affiliate link — it costs you nothing extra and it helps pay for the show.
12 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
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