Ep. 259: The Four-Hour Work Day
Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed by everything you have to do? The writer Oliver Burkeman recently experimented with an unexpected response to this common sensation: he decided to work much les...
31 Juli 20231h 13min
Ep. 258: Godel’s Deep Life Stack
Do history’s greatest thinkers care about time management? In today’s episode, Cal analyzes the system that the mathematician and philosopher, Kurt Godel, used to structure his days, weeks, and years ...
24 Juli 20231h 26min
Ep. 257: Refusing Overwork
Sometimes the most effective way to contain your workload is to simply declare how long you’re willing to work and then refuse to violate your pledge. In this episode, Cal revisits this “fixed-schedul...
17 Juli 20231h 13min
Ep. 256: Start with Discipline
In Cal’s new “deep life stack” the first layer toward finding more meaning is to develop discipline. Why does this come first? In this episode, Cal dives deeper into the importance of starting with di...
10 Juli 20231h 13min
Ep. 255: The Failure of Cybernetic Productivity
Over the past twenty years, “productivity” has come to be synonymous with using digital tools to speed up non-essential parts of knowledge work. As cal argues in this episode, this “cybernetic” approa...
3 Juli 20231h 12min
Ep. 254: The Laws of Less
Some of the most interesting and impactful people in the world build their work around a commitment to doing only a few things very well. No one remembers that it took Newton decades to finish The Pri...
26 Juni 20231h 18min
Ep. 253: Making Time for What Matters (w/ Laura Vanderkam)
In this episode, Cal is joined by Laura Vanderkam (author of Tranquility by Tuesday and co-host of the Best of Both Worlds podcast). Cal and Laura tackle a collection of your questions about the strug...
19 Juni 20231h 38min
Ep. 252: The Deep Life Stack
How do you leave a life of superficial distraction and cultivate something deeper? In today’s episode, Cal describes “The Deep Life Stack,” an approach to cultivating a deep life that starts with over...
12 Juni 20231h 18min
