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The Art of Speaking: “There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers,” this and other advice from a master speaker.

January 26, 2023February 6, 2008

How to Speak Every January, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, Computer Science Professor Patrick Henry Winston gives a famed lecture titled: How to Speak. During … Read more

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Disruptive Thinkers: Ben Casnocha Wants You To Stop Making So Many Damn Plans

January 26, 2023January 18, 2008

Disruptive Thinkers is a semi-regular series that features interesting young people with interesting ideas about college, studying, or life in general. The Randomness Factor In … Read more

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The Fitness Guru: Recharging During the Day, Avoiding the Beer Gut, and Self-Amputation

January 26, 2023November 2, 2007

The Fitness Guru Speaks In January of this year, Adam Gilbert, a recent college graduate, left his high-prestige job at Ernst & Young to start … Read more

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Disruptive Thinkers: Scott Young Wants to Change How You Study

January 26, 2023October 5, 2007

This post is the first in a new, semi-regular series I’m calling Disruptive Thinkers. Each entry in this series will feature an interesting person with … Read more

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If I Could Do it Again: Jessica Crowell

January 26, 2023September 27, 2007

Jessica Crowell resides in two very different worlds. After graduating from the University of North Carolina last spring, she continued her role as the Chief … Read more

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If I Could Do it Again: Melissa Adelman

January 26, 2023September 7, 2007

When Melissa Adelman graduated from UNC last May, she faced a hard choice. One month earlier, she had entered a major business plan competition with … Read more

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If I could do it again: Michael Simmons

January 26, 2023July 20, 2007

I’m inaugurating a new regular feature for the blog: If I could do it again. The idea is to interview recent college graduates doing interesting … Read more

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Interview with Ben Casnocha

January 26, 2023July 20, 2007

[Originally sent to Study Hacks Newsletter on 6/4/07] My friend Ben Casnocha recently published his first book, My Start-up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO … Read more

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Cal launched the "Study Hacks" blog at calnewport.com in 2007, and has been regularly publishing essays here ever since. Over 2,000,000 people a year visit this site to read Cal's weekly posts about technology, productivity, and the quest to live and work deeply in an increasingly distracted world, while tens of thousands more subscribe to have these essays delivered directly to their inbox (see the sign-up form below). To read more, you can browse more than 15 years of past essays in the archive.
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