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Cal Newport's insights on productivity without burnout are spot on. A key tactic not often discussed is the 'attention management'-structuring your workday around when you're naturally most focused can dramatically increase output without extra hours. It's about working smarter, not harder.
When Cal talks, I listen. He is one of my favorite thinkers even going back to his "How to Get Straight A's" book, which gave me tons of great ideas in my technical career. I was really disappointed to see the book isn't out until March! I have been thinking about this with regards to entrepreneurship. Most of the advice out there right now is essentially to take any half baked idea, just start, build a weak MVP, and then metric hack the everloving piss out of it. But I'm pretty sure that product focused companies will last longer. OR more importantly, it's a lot more fun and fulfilling to build out a product you love and are proud of. Granted, A/B testing and solid experimentation hygiene are standard best practices now. But hygiene is not the main theme of a fun life, and hygiene isn't the main theme of a fun company.
Two of the OGs together sharing deep insights into self-improvement. Gotta love it! Just wanted to add that Google is doing away with their podcast app and their replacement is RU-vid Music which is the same at RU-vid podcast playlist. So RU-vid is still the future of podcasts- for google at least.
Yeah, I actually think the RU-vid algorithm is great. I rarely, if ever, am suggested something I’m not interested in. Everyone has a different algorithm. I am never notified of Mr Beast video, unless he is on a different podcast I listen to. I think it’s just the demographic that is on RU-vid. It skews much younger.
I guess I am just the kind of person that watches a podcast. I listen to podcasts way less frequently because I can’t walk due to an injury. And maybe because I jump on RU-vid to research different plants because I am new to gardening and videos from channels I subscribe to are on my home page. Don’t get me wrong ~ when it is a podcast versus a video I need to watch ~ I multitask. Tim ~ I’ve been following you since the 4 hour work week and really appreciate you introducing me to new writers, bloggers, RU-vidrs, etc. I also love that you break-up your interviews into smaller segments for RU-vid Shorts.
I do not have the time to watch podcasts on my TV, I like to listen to them on YT premium while I am doing something else. Apple Podcast is difficult, YT has a better system
watching this on youtube! it works for my use case: 1) the UI for searching and organizing (to watch, watched, listen again) is way better than the green app. 2) i work alone at home as an illustrator and i have the pod on all day with wifi. i rarely look at the video, because my active window is on references / work.
Hey Tim, if I like the people I actually really enjoy sitting down and just watching the video version of a podcast, maybe over dinner or with some tea. There's something really peaceful and non-commital about it compared to shorter youtube videos or heavily produced media like movies. It's a different experience compared to listening to an episode while my mind is elsewhere. Loved the episode, the two titans of productivity!
Thanks for the beautiful conversation! Very inspiring and entertaining podcast! Everytime I think that’s the best episode and it only gets better or as great! Well crafted questions fun and deep and great guests it never gets boring or without gist! Loved the philosophy behind Cal’s answers and the simple and inspiring way of channeling the complex topic of life performance. Thanks for “Coming up with those deep words”!
I definitely watch/listen to a lot of my podcast material through RU-vid, but it tends to be the more intentional shows that I choose to subscribe to and that I am already subscribed to on my podcast app. Whereas reels/shorts is where I tend to discover a lot of these shows I would never otherwise watch. Personally, it rarely leads to me subscribing. But it does mean they come onto my radar and I do end up consuming a lot of their material in snippets, as once the algorithm realises I like it, that's all I get! (i.e Joe Rogan, 2 bears 1 cave, a lot of comedy podcasts in general)
Great podcast, perfect timing, as I am an inventor of a new tech algorithm, building the capital to invest in my first stage of the app build. "It takes as long as it takes," is the quote.
Listening to this having just listened to the All-In Podcast's latest episode where they debate MVP / Quick to market strategies like most SaS companies vs Deep Tech Business strategies like Elon's companies, Open AI and chip manufacturing... Interesting how Tim's observation about how if you feel like you have to rush you almost definitely don't have a long term competitive advantage (a moat) applies to business too. Zoom out to a 10 to 20 year time-horizon. Decide to work on 1 or 2 main things in your life, and go all in. Become the best in those things. In a world that is chasing its own tail, this is the way 🤝🤝
The irony of truth. I was 5-10 minutes into this episode before I realized Tim & Cal weren’t sitting across the table from one another because I was listening to the audio of this episode on RU-vid, one AirPod in, with my phone face down on my bedside table.
The thing about writing is practice sharpens your thinking. Can long conversations do the same thing? Perhaps, but you'd be much more dependent on the interlocutor being a good listener, responder, generous etc
Okay, so I literally just figured out with this podcast that you can click on a link in the short to get the whole thing. I was starting to get mad at RU-vid for putting shorts in my notifications, because then I thought I had to remember the title long enough to find the YT search bar. (Usually three swipes or taps of things that I didn't want to do, accidentally exiting and reopening the app, so by the time I get there, I can't remember the title, and half the time, it doesn't show up in the history.) And if you accidentally hit a button and screw it up, if YT didn't record it in your history, sometimes it is hard to find again, because for some reason, the back swipe doesn't take you back to where you were. YT on phone is maddening. Also, I don't want to have to play podcasts as videos because videos eat phone batteries faster.
Cal is ALL over the place with these takes. "I don't think RU-vid is the future of video for podcasts. RU-vid and podcasts don't play well together at all". Data? He claims smart TVs? YT TV? Chromecast? Hahahaha come on, Cal! Get your head in the game.
really interesting and smart guest.. I really enjoyed it, however, Tim ... what was up with the many out-of-sync giggles throughout the show.. It was odd.... the guest did not know what to say.....
Just a friendly feedback Tim. Your questions are too verbose and drawn out. I can understand that you need to set the context of the question but please work on brevity.
The future of podcasting will be in Smart TVs. I think this is so wrong. Lost people listen to podcast, don't watch them. Who cares if you record yourself in 4k? I don't want to see your face for 2 hours on 4k. Video only. Makes sense if there is some value added in the image. In a podcast, also this one, only the voice is of any value. I only turned the screen on to write this, now I'll turn it back off and continue with the listening while I work out.
What you do with sound in your latest interviews is just wrong. I mean using some software to silence breaks - I don’t know what it’s called. I just can’t get used to it, it seems so unnatural and useless. I don’t understand why the quality of your show is so low from the technical standpoint, compares to guys who consider you a master of podcasting... this particular thing seems like a weird experiment, am I the only one who hears that??
30 minutes in and they talk about irrelevant topics that are very personal to them. Future of podcasting and how to write are NOT reasons i opened this. Tim i would suggest you steer conversations to be relevant to the topic at hand.
There is also the handy 'Chapter' feature with descriptions so you can easily and quickly fast forward to the section you are interested in. I found it all interesting and appreciate the free quality content.
I read this comment before I actually started the video. Thanks for saving me the time, I’ll pass on this guy’s channel. Another pointless RU-vid recommendation
