Cal Newport
Also known as Calvin Newport
Georgetown computer science professor; author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity.
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- Cal Newport is an American author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
- He writes about attention and focused work in a distracted digital age.
- His book Deep Work (2016) gave the phrase its current meaning, and from 2017 he argued for "digital minimalism".
- He started the Study Hacks blog in 2007 and hosts a podcast on productivity and knowledge work.
Key facts
- Education
- Dartmouth College (2004); PhD in computer science, MIT (2009), under Nancy Lynch; MIT post-doctoral associate from 2009 to 20111
- Georgetown
- Assistant professor from 2011, tenured in 2017, full professor in 2024; research on distributed algorithms1
- Books
- So Good They Can't Ignore You (2012); Deep Work (2016); Digital Minimalism (2019); A World Without Email (2021); Slow Productivity (2024)1
- Writing
- Study Hacks blog, started in 2007; a newsletter and a podcast1
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