Ep. 8: Fleeing a Collapsing Career, Taking Notes on Books, Building a Deep Life | DEEP QUESTIONS Deep Questions with Cal Newport

In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on fleeing a collapsing career, taking notes on books, and building a deep life. I also play some question roulette and answer the audio question of the day.
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Full list of topics tackled in today’s episode:
 * Fleeing a collapsing career.
 * The coming knowledge work productivity revolution.
 * Configuring your tasks.
 * Amending Deep Work.
 * Audio Question: Finding depth in a social office.
 * Taking notes on books (plus: Kindle versus physical)
  * News from social media.
  * Thoughts on LinkedIn.
  * Running a business as a student.
  * Optimal amounts of solitude.
  * Finding quality leisure.
  * How to build a deep life.
Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music.