Ep. 4: Promoting Books without Social Media, Facebook's Fatal Flaw, and Escaping Soul-Crushing Jobs | DEEP QUESTIONS

In this episode of Deep Questions I answer reader questions on book publicity without social media, Facebook's fatal flaw, and escaping soul-crushing jobs. I also try out a new segment where I answer on the fly randomly selected questions I have not previously seen (to interesting effect).

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Full list of topics tackled in today’s episode:

 * Do I plan to ever have guests on the podcast to help me answer questions? (Yes.)  * Deep work in a reactive organization (rant alert).  * Tackling an overwhelming number of obligations.  * Dealing with unproductive days.  * Building good depth rituals.  * Deliberate practice and social skills.  * When is a PhD program worth it?  * Productive people who also use social media.  * The good and bad sides of technology.  * Side-stepping the YouTube rabbit hole.  * Publicizing books when you don't use social media.  * Reducing text volume when dating.  * Encouraging teens to spend last time on their phones (difficult, but possible!).  * Facebook's fatal flaw.  * Dealing with a job that "eats" your soul.  * Advice for teenagers about to start college.  * Fear of failure while pursuing a PhD.  * Quarantine ruts impacting productivity (sermon alert).  * PLUS: two randomly selected questions (mega sermon alert)

Thank you to listener Bit Holiday for the original theme music and transition sound effect (bitholiday.net (http://bitholiday.net/)).

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