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Cal Newport on Mission, Mastery, and Flourishing at Work

By Jon Hersey

Dec 23, 2021
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Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the best-selling author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and most recently, A World Without Email. I recently spoke with Cal about living the “deep life,” how our standard operating procedures are diminishing our ability to do meaningful work and wha…

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