Ep. 8: Fleeing a Collapsing Career, Taking Notes on Books, Building a Deep Life | DEEP QUESTIONS

In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on fleeing a collapsing career, taking notes on books, and building a deep life. I also play some question roulette and answer the audio question of the day.

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Full list of topics tackled in today’s episode:

* Fleeing a collapsing career.

* The coming knowledge work productivity revolution.

* Configuring your tasks.

* Amending Deep Work.

* Audio Question: Finding depth in a social office.

* Taking notes on books (plus: Kindle versus physical)

* News from social media.

* Thoughts on LinkedIn.

* Running a business as a student.

* Optimal amounts of solitude.

* Finding quality leisure.

* How to build a deep life.

Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music.

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