Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown and the author of several influential books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and Slow Productivity. His newsletter extends the arguments of those books into ongoing commentary on work culture, technology’s impact on attention, and how to build a meaningful career in a distracted world.
What to Expect
Essays on focused work, the costs of hyperconnectivity, productivity philosophy, and the structural forces that make good work hard to do. Newport is a systematic thinker who writes with precision — his arguments are carefully constructed and he’s willing to take positions that go against the productivity-culture grain.
Who It’s For
Knowledge workers, academics, and anyone who’s read Deep Work or Digital Minimalism and wants more. Also valuable for people who feel like the conventional productivity advice they’ve tried isn’t working and want a more fundamental critique of how we work.
Frequency: Weekly