#40: Music or Podcasts? Commuting, Meditative Walks, and Solitude

During your commute, do you listen to music or podcasts?

Books

• Deep Work (and productive meditation) by Cal Newport

Links

• My Podcasts Not Music blog post (2014)
• Oak meditation and breathing app
• Hurry Slowly podcast by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Deep Questions podcast by Cal Newport

People mentioned

• Adam Menges
• Cal Newport

Chapters

• 00:00 · Intro
• 03:38 · Why not music, by default?
• 04:20 · Focus and meditation
• 04:53 · Why listen to podcasts?
• 05:46 · Solitude
• 06:24 · Meditative walks
• 07:16 · Once-in-a-lifetime audios
• 10:06 · My commute
• 11:46 · Remote work
• 12:38 · Listening together
• 13:23 · TL;DR
• 13:31 · What's your take?

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