Cal Newport
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Cal Newport is an American nonfiction author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He is known for writing about attention management, technology, work, productivity, and human flourishing in the digital age.
Works by Cal Newport
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2 episodes featuring Cal Newport
Better Offline
How rationalist ideas shaped the AI race
The episode examines how speculative beliefs about superintelligence moved from online communities into institutions and incentives driving frontier AI development.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 24m
Better Offline
AI safety warnings distract from companies’ concrete failures
The episode argues that weak security, poor training, and reckless deployment pose more immediate risks than speculative claims about autonomous systems.
Sep 11, 2026 · 22 min