Addicted to social media? You don’t want to miss this week’s episode with Cal Newport!
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to researching cutting¬ edge technology, he also writes about the impact of these innovations on our culture. Newport is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism, which argues that we should be much more selective about the technologies we adopt in our personal lives, and Deep Work, which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace.
Newport’s work has been published in over 25 languages and has been featured in many major publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Washington Post, and Economist. He regularly writes articles on these topics for a variety of outlets, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, and his long-running blog Study Hacks, which receives over 3 million visits a year. He’s also a frequent guest on NPR.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:12 Who is Cal Newport?
1:59 CS Professor vs Digital Minimalism
4:12 Two innovations that changed the internet (& us) forever
9:22 Generational differences in digital minimalism
11:40 What are we so afraid of when we turn off our phones?
13:58 Become a digital minimalist with these two activities!
15:56 How to kill your quarantine social media addiction
18:47 Why Twitter is so addictive
22:06 Is social media to blame for the terrible US pandemic response?
24:45 Alternatives to social media
27:09 Beware of the Joe Rogan-Spotify deal
32:49 How to solve negative polarization
34:14 Cal Newport on social media age restrictions
40:30 Can activists be digital minimalists?
44:30 The only time you should use social media
46:07 Cal Newport on social media anonymity
47:36 “Social media companies found a way to annoy the left and the right”
52:09 Facebook needed Cambridge Analytica to survive?!
57:14 Are we already living in Ready Player One?
59:19 Dear Mark Zuckerberg – From The Author Of Digital Minimalism
1:04:27 Indy social media is the modern-day David and Goliath
1:06:45 Is podcasting the next social media platform?
1:12:30 Outro
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