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  • How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? | Tech Decoded

    How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? | Tech Decoded
    Sep 10 2026
    Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? (8:58) Reasoning models (15:30) Astra (21:02) The Good (24:48) The Bad (28:28) The Hype Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNsdr-Qx_I https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secret-technique-behind-openais-astra-model-sparks-security-concerns?rc=1ycz3a https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2094957301564092914 https://x.com/sjgadler/status/2094959837691908214?s=61 https://x.com/merettm/status/2095023204993490967?s=20 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473 Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    39 Min.
  • How I’m Organizing My Life this Fall | Advice

    How I’m Organizing My Life this Fall | Advice
    Sep 7 2026
    It’s that time of year again when Cal tunes up his organizational systems for the onslaught of the fall. In this episode, Cal walks through the exact system he’s personally adopting for the next few months. He also discusses why such systems are key to thriving in our current frenetic technological world, why it’s important to continue to tweak your systems, and best practices for constructing your own setup. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) How I’m organizing my life this fall (24:36) An Irish novelist talks about her use of AI (30:11) Developing a more balanced approach to tech products (35:04) Cal’s opinion on an AI article (41:55) Large corporations move away from all enterprise AI (48:46) What Cal is up to August 2026 Books The New Dark Age (Nigel Biggar) Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ https://culturedcode.com/things/ https://www.timeblockplanner.com/ Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.superhuman.com https://www.shopify.com/deep https://www.monarch.com (Use code “DEEP”) https://www.mybodytutor.com Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    52 Min.
  • Did OpenAI Create “Secret AI Civilizations”? | Tech Decoded

    Did OpenAI Create “Secret AI Civilizations”? | Tech Decoded
    Sep 3 2026
    Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Does OpenAI create “secret AI civilizations”? (1:59) What’s the deal with “agent swarms”? (8:54) Should we be worried that the agents are plotting? (17:39) How should we be thinking about all of this? Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface https://calnewport.com/has-ai-gone-rogue/ https://calnewport.com/are-we-at-war-with-ai-agent-civilizations/ Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    27 Min.
  • Rethinking the Deep Life Stack (Again!) | Monday Advice

    Rethinking the Deep Life Stack (Again!) | Monday Advice
    Aug 31 2026
    Back in 2023, Cal released an episode on a lifestyle design strategy I called the Deep Life Stack. Today, almost three years later, Cal revisits this idea and replaces it with a more robust concept that he calls “The Deep Life Map.” Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Rethinking the Deep Life stack (38:07) Too many interests and not enough time (47:29) Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans (55:34) A freelance musician and social media (1:09:08) What Cal is up to August 2026 Books An Inside Job (Daniel Silva) Three Years in Wonderland (Todd James Pierce) Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02541-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Cal-Newport/author/B001IGNR0U https://x.com/RyanHoliday Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.surfshark.com/deepquestions https://www.quo.com/deep https://www.masterclass.com/deep https://www.notion.com/cal Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 Std. und 20 Min.
  • Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded

    Has AI “Gone Rogue”? Let’s Look Closer… | Tech Decoded
    Aug 27 2026
    Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Has AI “Gone Rogue” (2:25) Observation #1 - Most Superhuman AI is well behaved (4:28) Observation #2 - A specific type of AI system is causing these problems (9:59) Observation #3 - This specific type of system is a bad idea (21:25) Observation #4 - The AI companies are negligent (27:04) Observation #5 - We can push back Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregular-openai-0e8061437da6779be962b24ac134a514 https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2080685870877757551 https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit1/agent-steps-and-structure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwAOHVBKTwg Sponsor: https://www.donedaily.com Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 Min.
  • How to Build a Cognitive Training Plan | Monday Advice

    How to Build a Cognitive Training Plan | Monday Advice
    Aug 24 2026
    In the world of physical health, we use so-called “key performance indicators” (KPIs) to help measure and improve our fitness. In today’s episode, Cal proposes a collection of three KPIs for measuring and improving your *cognitive* capabilities – a small step toward his larger vision of a cognitive fitness revolution. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) How to build a cognitive training plan (29:48) What is Cal’s opinion on information fatigue syndrome? (37:04) Comments on the new book, “Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life” (40:17) An interesting way to think about AI and thinking (47:37) An article about Disneyland, high quality leisure, and deep living (57:53) What Cal is up to August 2026 Books The Laws of Thought (Tom Griffiths) This is For Everyone (Tim Berners-Lee) Into the Deep (Bob Ballard and Christopher Drew)202 Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba? https://workplacepsychology.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/information-overload-when-information-becomes-noise/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/12/reading-between-the-lines-part-1-a-cognitive-framework-for-ai-in-scholarly-publishing/ https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/18/boredom-and-its-discontents-part-ii/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/ https://archive.ph/WvW1F Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.calderalab.com/deep (Use code “DEEP) https://www.vanta.com/deepquestions https://www.gusto.com/deep https://www.babbel.com/deep Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 Std. und 3 Min.
  • Classic Episode: How Do I Kick My Scrolling Habit? | Monday Advice

    Classic Episode: How Do I Kick My Scrolling Habit? | Monday Advice
    Aug 17 2026
    The best way to kick your scrolling habit is to introduce more “high quality leisure” into your life. But how do you accomplish this goal? In this replay of a classic episode from February, 2024, Cal walks through six new habits – what he calls a “high quality leisure toolkit” – for rebuilding your life around more meaningful activities. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Confronting Your Phone (13:06) What does Cal think about Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves To Death”? (17:45) Can you pursue high quality leisure after a day filled with deep work? (21:56) Can commercial breaks be used for high quality leisure? (25:04) Will digital minimalism work in an age of augmented reality? (31:26) How can a full time YouTuber practice digital minimalism? (38:34) How to share content online? (46:27) Cost-benefit analysis of technology usage (49:09) JRR Tolkien’s Search for Depth Links: https://twitter.com/explore/tabs/trending https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/popular/hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?lang=en https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-consolations-of-fantasy Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.cozyearth.com (Use code “DEEP”) https://www.shopify.com/deep https://www.monarch.com (Use code “DEEP”) Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for slow productivity music, and Mark Miles for mastering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    58 Min.
  • How Do I Finish Meaningful Projects? | Monday Advice

    How Do I Finish Meaningful Projects? | Monday Advice
    Aug 10 2026
    Only 8% of people finish their yearly goals. At the same time, the percentage of people feeling a sense of meaning of purpose in their life is falling. These two numbers are connected: the more we struggle to accomplish meaningful projects, the less meaningful our lives might feel. In this episode, Cal looks back to a classic article he wrote nearly twenty years ago to both better understand why this problem is getting worse and how we can solve it. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) How do I finish meaningful projects? (39:36) A new study about children with cellphones having poorer reading comprehension (43:14) A nurse practitioner in search of deep work (45:45) Using AI to improve both your work and life (52:24) A recent Wall Street Journal article about AI and jobs (1:00:07) What Cal is up to July 2026 Books Orality and Literacy (Walter Ong) Lost (Rachel Harrington) Sapiens (Yuval Harari) More Everything Forever (Adam Becker) Disneyland the Rise of Automation (Roland Bethencourt) A Brief History of Intelligence (Max Bennett) Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/ Cal’s monthly book directory: bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba? https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/science-says-92-percent-of-people-dont-achieve-goals-heres-how-the-other-8-perce.html https://news.gallup.com/poll/711836/gen-zers-missing-sense-meaning-purpose-life.aspx https://calnewport.com/the-einstein-principle-accomplish-more-by-doing-less/ https://futureoftuesday.substack.com/p/techno-analog https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/owning-a-cell-phone-associated-with-poorer-reading-comprehension-schoolchildren https://www.wsj.com/business/big-companies-are-starting-to-hire-again-defying-predictions-of-ai-wipeout-f4974e99?mod=hp_lead_pos10 Thanks to our Sponsors: https://www.scribe.how/deep https://www.superhuman.com https://www.mybodytutor.com https://www.factormeals.com/deep50off Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 Std. und 5 Min.