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1 week ago |
80000hours.org | Cal Newport
We are aiming for a place where we can decouple the scorecard from our worthiness. It’s of course the case that in trying to optimise the good, we will always be falling short. The question is how much, and in what ways are we not there yet? And if we then extrapolate that to how much and in what ways am I not enough, that’s where we run into trouble. — Hannah BoettcherWhat happens when your desire to do good starts to undermine your own wellbeing?
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Cal Newport
On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk posted on X that “all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.” He added that noncompliance would result in termination. Within hours, an e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management, with the subject line “What did you do last week?”, appeared in the in-boxes of millions of federal employees. “Please reply to this email with approx.
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2 months ago |
link.newyorker.com | Justin Chang |Cal Newport
Plus: Mary Mattingly’s moonlit gardens; Dua Saleh’s spellbinding sounds; and new works of cultural archeology. View in browser | What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. In today’s newsletter, how a documentarian takes on power, and then: Frederick Wiseman has redefined the art of nonfiction filmmaking in a directorial career, begun in 1967, that includes forty-six documentaries to date.
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2 months ago |
newyorker.com | Cal Newport
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to Robert Gottlieb, who had just taken over as editor-in-chief at Knopf.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
newyorker.com | Cal Newport
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1881, James Bonsack patented an automated cigarette-making machine, and, in the years that followed, smoking became much more prevalent in America. Parents and reformers grew worried about kids picking up the habit. “It is not uncommon, it is said, to see a child not more than five years old smoking contentedly,” the L.A. Times warned in an article from this period.
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