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The Surprising Math of Doing Less | Deep Questions Podcast with Cal Newport
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- Cal Newport does a Deep Dive on "The Surprising Math of Doing Less".
Cal explains that we are at a time when more people feel overwhelmed by how much they have to do than in other recent points in history. The surprising thing about this is that the mathematics are pretty clear: if you create things of value for a living, almost certainly the scheduling approach that will maximize the total amount of value you create over time is to do less. Indeed, we can trace a productivity versus load curve to capture this succinctly.
There are both negative and positive reasons for this claim.
Negative Reasons: anxiety and chronic overload.
Positive Reason: It rewards on an activity that grows non-linearly with effort invested.
Why?
1. moving past “amateur” level creates a big discontinuous leap.
2. Remarkability - “wow, that caught my attention” is also a big discontinuous leap
Market-dynamics are at play. The more people who can do what you just did, the lower the value it gets. Time is the big differentiating factor.
Both take time. Having less things lets you do this. A steady production of these higher value results swamps benefits of doing any more lower value results.
This is one of the central ideas of Cal's slow productivity philosophy. People are doing too much in the world of work, and not really for any good reason beyond inertia and laziness.
Listen to Episode Here (Scroll down to #194DeepQuestionsPodcast) : bit.ly/3eEefHK
0:00 Cal's intro
1:10 Cal is defining what creating things of value are
3:08 Cal explains the Negative and Positive reasons to add work
10:00 Cal summarizes the Knowledge Sector
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About Cal Newport:
Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives.
Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner.
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This is personally very challenging in a good way. I’m a huge proponent of your philosophy and still find myself drawn to doing too many things and spreading my efforts too wide. Thanks for sharing these thoughts… it’s caused me to pause and consider a more effective way to be productive and reengineer our team’s work.
This channel is a gold mine
Phenomenal video. As other commentators have noticed, your audio could be better and I think that would increase your views by a lot. Your ideas need to be heard!
1 - the sm7b is a solid mic, but very sensitive to proximity. A lot of the volume inconsistency is proximity effect (moving on and off the mic).
2 - if you are not already using an inline mic preamp such as a cloudlifter, that might be something to try.
3 - in post, try using a hard limiter to bring the level up.
Thank you for your work. I am a huge fan and Deep Work is one of my favorite books.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I too noticed the audio (mac is on full volume, youtube clip on full volume, still a bit tricky in some spots).
I don't think he reads the comments LOL
sm58
It's quite hilarious why these informative videos are watched less and all those shitty content has views in millions, like why people don't want to progress, it's been 2 years listening to cal and the amount of things i have learnt from him over the years is just immense, anyways good to be better than those million people !!
Has your life become better than it was 2 years ago?
This reminds me of the quote that goes somewhat like:
"I do not fear the man who has practiced 10.000 kicks once, but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10.000 times."
Salute to you Cal. I am your big fan. Thank you for making our life easy ❤️🙏
Yep that was how I felt at my last job. There were just many things to do, so many emails and meetings, and I was so overwhelmed I just couldn’t produce anything great. I quit a few months ago and am working at a job that makes sure you’re not overloaded with stuff and tracks your achievements and makes quarterly goals very important.
My first job as a software engineer was like that. Too much project management, meetings, email. 95% communication about the work, 4.8% tedious garbage sifting, and 0.2% interesting, engaging work.
thank you, i was stuck in such a job for many years, i was just super busy with zero value generated. finally i was able to quit, realised my mistake after reading your book deep work. thank you so much. the learning has just begun now 😊, out of regret phase now.
Good luck! I start my new work in two weeks. Cal's videos really made me think about how I want to change my attitude.
oh man just realized this is what happening to me...and I was thinking all along where is it going wrong....Thanks a ton for this video
I agree. I'd rather do 4 hours of intense work in a day than 8 of average
This one is gold. And thanks for the text summary.
Great summary!!! I agree it is not linear. If you dedicate 20hs to something on the week, it´s not the same value that if you dedicate 5hs to 4 things. That thing that you dedicate 20hs, you create more value than multipling by 4 the other 4 things you would do.
this guy is amazing !!!!!
I heard you explain “overhead” several times, but this time I really understood it. With 15 projects, the amount of overhead is 15 times as high as with one project, so the relative productivity time is reduced. Hm. Thank you for giving me something to think about.
Super interesting! I need to live this philosophy
Hi Cal, do we foresee a Slow Productuvity book soon? 👀
Cal, you should increase the volume a bit in your videos. They're a bit quiet compared to other UA-cam videos.
And lower the music to the intro/outro song, please.
I am at 2 / 3 the volume through an iPhone and it is quite loud.
No, he shouldn't, coz less is more 🤪
@@duartelucas5746 he likely fixed it
Agreed.
Remarkable!
Could you please share your schedule with us or generally how you plan your day? that would be super interesting to see :)
Thank you
Thanks Cal, great share
Thank you!
Hello! This was a really great clip. Do you have a video for project managers on how best to set up for their coworkers to thrive? I want to help others be able to time block and work less and be to get better at the skill that makes them so valuable, but am still unsure how to structure that environment. Thanks!
great honest video
It’s the opposite for me. I find I thrive in having several projects going at once. Is one thing not going well? Work on the on other thing for an hour and come back to it. It makes me less anxious as there is some progress being made. I think people who complain about this problem are disorganized and lack the capability to starting and doing the work. Turning one's brain on before work (deep thinking, planning, organizing, to-dos, workflow) and turning it off during work (starting, flowing) is essential for productivity.
This guy didn’t say multiple projects are bad. They said that the return of value (output) for more different inputs decreases in relation to the number of inputs. So having 2 projects isn’t bad, not even having 20 projects is not bad. But the rate of return for each I out decreases non-linearly
Also a generif feedback prof. Cal sir , volume of your podcasts is a little less , could you increase that a little in future ?
Can we also get a transcript of the same conversations ??
Impossible in consulting.
Great video. Struggling with this right now in the business world. Building a startup, super high tech in the energy sector. In the capital raising stage and cannot spend much on paying our team. Thus side hustles have taken over my attention. I now feel myself spread between 3 projects, one that is my own that creates existential value to the world, but nominal value for myself financially. The other two projects are in the health sector which i love, but my brain is literally in a feedback loop attempting to manage 3 things, while also maintaining my fitness journey, taking care of my home and spending time with my fiance.
This!
most of the jobs in corporate can't be done like this. because they are repetitive in nature and tagged to a KPI. Whereever there is a KPI metric in place, that ain't a creative job.
1. marketing is not a creative job\
2. branding is not a creative job unless you try out something very less tried and it works.
3. sales is not a creative job.
4. software dev jobs are not creative if you are tagged with the role sde, product manager, front end dev or back end dev.
5. research dev jobs in tech r creative jobs.
only small percentage of people, probably 5% people do creative jobs, and according to J. Peterson the chances of success are .001%.
but you dont have to be scared, success is always there, people 99% of the times don't even try their hand on iteration based games.
Great topic, but I still can’t forgive you for not warning Ruth about the cartel hit on her in the Ozark finale.
Why are you wearing headphones..?
😂
Where’s @afterskool to make this an animated video?