Cal Newport

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted after trying Claude Code for the first time. "Overnight, it changed the way I do my job," he wrote. "It's real

If you've been following technology news recently, you've probably noticed a sudden increase in references to a 19th-century economics theory called the Jevons Paradox, which ... Read more

David Epstein, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sports Gene and Range, has a new book out called Inside the Box. As ... Read more

Last week, millions of New York Times readers were subjected to an alarming column by Thomas Friedman.

Ten years ago, I published Deep Work. It was my second mainstream hardcover idea book. The previous title, So Good They Can't Ignore You, hadn't ... Read more

Last week in this newsletter, I summarized some interesting results from a study that analyzed the behavior of 164,000 knowledge workers. It found that introducing ... Read more

I recently heard from a historian of science at All Souls College, Oxford. He forwarded me an essay he wrote about Nicolaus Steno, a seventeenth-century ... Read more

I've been studying the intersection of digital technology and office work for quite some time. (I find it hard to believe that my book, Deep ... Read more

Last week, news broke that Amazon would be laying off 16,000 workers. Here was the headline from an article about this news published in Quartz: ... Read more

A reader recently sent me a viral video. It features a heavily muscled and perpetually shirtless fitness influencer named Ashton Hall demonstrating what he calls