Ep. 258: Godel’s Deep Life Stack

[@Fahodinho]

Cal is extremely underrated… y’all remember to share his podcast!

[@taylorjanegreen1]

This was great! When Kurt Godel made a point of spending time with his wife, Dell… As a part of his time management evening … I was surprised you didn’t comment more or accentuate this point… As a real part of the importance of a good, disciplined, regular structure … that it includes intentionally cultivating healthy intimacy with one’s loved ones which is invaluable for supporting one’s spiritual, mental, emotional work during work. I know you do this with your wife. I think it’s very important to underline this. I do not think it can be over emphasized in today’s workaholic world. Thanks for your great show.

[@tabishumaransari]

Thanks for all the high quality content Cal.

[@MonaWazir]

you're almost at 100k subs been here since 50k wow! glad because your philosophy is needed

[@shahquadri]

I've been here since 7k 🎉

[@nitin_puranik]

The pace is only going to pick up from here. I'm betting he'll hit 1 million subscribers by 2025.

[@AlexStock187]

I've always wanted to starve to death, worried that people were trying to poison me.... Structuring my life like Godel will help me achieve this. Thank you so much!

[@cky127]

Congrats on your 100,000 subscribers Cal & Jesse! You deserve it!

[@johnvienna3422]

A takeaway gently slipped in just after 54:00 - "dedication to his work as being a source of interestingness". I'm not sure whether Cal meant the work was the source of interestingness, or the dedication to that work. But if we take it that the dedication is a source of interestingness, I think that's a useful point - observing and nurturing one's dedication to something valuable, not just the valuable thing itself. No idea if I'm making sense here, but somewhere in my waffle may be a point worth picking up on.

[@danielabbey7726]

Excellent subject for a video! Godel was one of the deepest thinkers of the 20th Century.

[@JNYC-gb1pp]

23:00 I think he isn't just saying to have the physical discipline to achieve mental tasks, but to set up the physical space to set the right trigger for mental work ie posture while at desk, mise-en-place notebooks/pencils etc.

[@diegofrota]

It really needs a blog entry, pls

[@johnvienna3422]

Remarkable looks nice, but wow, it's expensive. Also don't want to carry round and fret about another device. My workaround: a little, light notebook (e.g. Muji passport size, or the small Moleskine "carnet"), which easily goes everywhere with me. I make notes on anything I like, simply on the next available page. Then once a week I transfer my pearls of wisdom into OneNote (type in, or even just photograph the page). In OneNote I can add to any existing page, or make new ones, and now it's all 1) backed up, 2) structured and sorted, 3) on all my devices, and 4) legible. Once any particular thing is in OneNote, I just cross it through in the notebook. Once a notebook is finished, and everything is transferred, the notebook can be respectfully thrown away (or kept for the memory, whatever). One more point: in a real notebook, or indeed OneNote etc, you can use colour.

[@alexbie98]

Holy shit, cal is being sponsored by EA? Is this the first vid with 80k hrs ad?

[@notthatJules1]

Totally off topic but does anyone else notice that Cal looks a bit like a young Kurt Russell facially? I watched the old movie Backdraft the other day and was struck by the similarity.

[@realspacemusicvideos]

The University house has character!

[@krox477]

Cal I read your book deep work trying to apply it in my life

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

I feel like he's a real life Mark Watney who just likes spending productive time in Mars, working on productivity

[@CPAngling]

Should of put HQ north in Newport, New Hampshire!

[@sameerroshan9542]

Ipad with apps like notability, goodnotes and apple pencil, and paperlike screen protector is much better than remarkable 2

[@JW-ue3sb]

Does anyone know a link to Kurt Godel's notebooks?

[@rubikonbarka5555]

Not a link, but watch out for Kurt Gödel (Godel), Philosophical Notebooks, in particular, presumably the one numbered I and II "Time Management"

[@JW-ue3sb]

@@rubikonbarka5555 Thank you !

[@abrorbekhamidullayev5297]

It would be better to buy a better camera so that the videos could be second to none.

[@sush139]

Where can I get the notebooks, English edition ?

[@piotr_sss]

libgen, search for Eva-Maria Engelen, there are first two volumes, titles are in German, but each one contains also translation

[@sush139]

@@piotr_sss Yes, that’s where I got them. When I posted the above message I saw the books on that repository but they looked German to me. It turns out that the same book has both languages: German and the English translation. After a lot of google searching I realized that the same book has both languages. I wasn’t sure if I could post about that site on a public forum like KZbin. In any case, thank you very much! I could very easily have missed it and your comment would have helped me out.

[@billieball1]

@@sush139 could you post the link here?

[@sush139]

@@billieball1 I just posted it, youtube may remove it..

[@billieball1]

@@sush139 where did you post it?

[@milkman6218]

Cal Newport was really blinking a lot in this episode.

[@ArnoldSommerfeld]

The problem with wasting your time and getting a degree in computer science is you really cannot understand the physics of the Oppenheimer movie.

[@bkbk1184]

I say this with respect, but for a podcast about time management this sure is long and baggy. Did you really start by talking about the weather?! This could be 20-30 min.