Do you need social media? Which services? For what purposes? These are complicated questions and in today’s episode Cal proposes a simple route to answers: conducting a “social media pause.” To help investigate this strategy, Cal is joined by T.K. Coleman, of The Minimalists, to talk about a social media pause that they tried and the surprising results it generated.
Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: <a href="https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3U3sTvo</a>
Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia
IDEAS SEGMENT: Interview with T.K. Coleman [3:26]
INBOX:
 - Focused work in early modern time [1:00:18]
 - Tool suggestion from a programmer [1:05:10]
 - Staring at a painting for three hours [1:13:26]
WHAT CAL IS UP TO:
 - Changes to the show [1:18:44]
 - What Cal read [1:20:04]
 - What Cal watched [1:21:34]
 - Renovation of Maker Lab [1:25:38]
The Age of Extraction (Tim Wu)
 John and Paul (Ian Leslie)
Movies:
 Train Dreams
 The Hurt Locker
 Three Days of the Condor
Links:
 Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow
 Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at <a href="https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/</a>
 Cal’s monthly book directory: <a href="https://bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba?v=448bf8afad0740d18f6b109b4bd40d51" rel="noopener noreferrer">bramses.notion.site/059db2641def4a88988b4d2cee4657ba?</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgMUBMqrE7M" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgMUBMqrE7M</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/161jik7/please_share_how_you_use_obsidian_for_task/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/161jik7/please_share_how_you_use_obsidian_for_task/</a>
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