How To Work From Home: The Productivity System To Get More Done In 2025 | Cal Newport

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Cal Newport talks about hacking remote work in Episode 337 of the Deep Questions podcast.

Remote work is a hot discussion topic right now as president Trump moves to eliminate it from government work. For those who are still allowed to work from home this new focus provides a good chance to rethink how to get the most out of these arrangements. In today’s episode, Cal presents three foundational ideas from his reporting about what makes remote work actually work, and for each provides concrete advice individuals can apply to make their own virtual setups better. He then answers reader questions and ends with a tech corner focused on what the law says about whether social media should be banned for kids.

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0:00 Hacking Remote Work
36:28 How does Cal explain time management vs. focus and attention management?
45:43 How can I self study hard, technical concepts?
49:44 Should I quit my PhD program after 3.5 years?
1:04:06 Does Slow Productivity work for college students?
1:12:24 Organizing a writing sabbatical
1:21:11 A software engineer removes distractions
1:28:40 Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?

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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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Would love to see Cal cover the effect of chronic pain on deep work and cognitive function.
Edit: I think a lot of viewers that have chronic pain issues still want to perform at a high level and secure a living.

TasinKhan-iq
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Adventure study (go somewhere interesting to do work ie waterfall, gallery etc) and at home set up spaces for different contexts, simulate a commute ie 20 min walk to do a reset get into homelife mindset, create seasonality: have heavy and light days rather than splitting work into equal hours

JNYC-gbpp
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Great video timing! I have been full remote for a few years, but actually started a new remote role this week and have been revisiting how i manage my work. Thanks for the advice!

ggnorekthx
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Regarding remote work and the federal workers, Cal is absolutely correct that gov't workers struggle to be productive in remote work because they exist in a waterfall style management paradigm.

If gov't was based on Agile management, they could work from home AND be more productive.

awprc
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I am from Nicaragua. This channel needs to have Spanish audio like other YouTube channels. I don't know how they do it. I don't know if they pay. Or is it just the configuration, but this channel, for what it is, it should be translated to Spanish language.

leadershipunlimited
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The thing with the government workers going back to the office is that it has been nightmarish trying to communicate with gov workers since the pandemic. It's like there is an unofficial policy that you don't have to answer the phone anymore since the pandemic, it seems like nobody is ever in the office or that ithere isn't a responsibility to communicate with the public during normal working hours!

cirelo
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In the UK we're being forced back to work. Both countries are going to have a problem with this because nobody wants to go back. I think people will just start their own businesses.

biegebythesea
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Anyone looking for translations to other languages, click on the gear icon at the bottom right of the video > Subtitles/CC > Auto translate > Choose your language. Can't promise good accuracy levels but should be quite helpful.

nitin_puranik
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Management needs to observe the consequences for employees to return to work and relieve them. For instance long difficult commutes can be relieved by establishing "satellite" office spaces. Employees in shared geographical locations can office-pool instead of car pooling. 🤔

carrotgold
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Open office hours and blocked time for unscheduled communications is the best for handling the unexpected events of the day while maintaining your boundaries RACI model. Quality self learning modules are also needed to help others and minimize those unscheduled communications.

kcaliguy
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This dude is such a psycho. His ideas on work are so general that they boarder on insane. Like almost everyone else, he doesn’t understand the sort of work people who are not him do, yet he tells comfortable offering all these prescriptive.

reginaldphillips
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"Wandering through the landscape of possibilities" is so delightfully pisces though haha

theupwardspiral
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Great video! A lot of good ideas, I have a lot of this in practice but picked up a few new things. Very helpful!

On a personal experience level (this is a personal circle issue too) I don't have a single friend who family member who works remote full-time who does not also gloat about how little work they actually do while "on the clock". I work remote full-time, and if found out anyone under me had the same attitude as them - I would fire them immediately. They're effectively bragging about stealing, leaving co-workers to pick up slack, and putting clients out of what they're paying for.

Right or wrong on Trump's decision. So many studies show that remote workers are less productive, and a massive report was just released on the insane lack of productivity on remote government workers.

Before the pandemic everyone complained about how they work harder than everyone around them. Post-Pandemic everyone brags about how lazy they are. It's crazy.

hashtagzema
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Call Rod Blagojevich, he went to jail before iPhone was invented.

nikbosYT
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Having worked in and with the Federal govt for 30 years, most people are ineffective either through incompetence (much of gov’t is patronage and nepotism (i.e., not the best person for the role)) or lack of power/authority to change anything, if actually the “expert” or with great idea. Add to that, confusion with mgmt = leadership, which is not the case. So, there is a lot of deadweight in gov’t. The covid shutdown proved this. Paying people to work from home who don’t do anything is wasteful and slows progress. And is a fraud.

Making them come into the office will force many who should have retired years ago to finally do it. It’s unfortunate that some need to work from home, at least part of the time. I can see that eventually coming back in once the clean out occurs (to include the post-Chevron reversal right-sizing).

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It would be great if your videos had Turkish subtitles.

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