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Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport

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Computer Scientist & Bestselling Author

On AI Coding and Its Discontents

10 Aug 2026

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more

Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?

27 Jul 2026

A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more

Why Reading Matters

13 Jul 2026

Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled ​“The End of Reading is Here.”​ (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ... Read more

Beware of Productivity Paradoxes

29 Jun 2026

Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – ...

Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”

22 Jun 2026

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 ... Read more

AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.

15 Jun 2026

The Financial Times ​recently reported​ an interview with Rebecca Hinds, head of the Work AI Institute. Hinds was discussing a new survey of 6,000 digital ... Read more

Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?

8 Jun 2026

The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as machines eliminated jobs that depended on human brawn, AI will eliminate ... Read more

The Pope vs. Silicon Valley

1 Jun 2026

Last fall, the Notre Dame philosopher, Meghan Sullivan, participated in a closed-door meeting at the Vatican. She was there to discuss AI ethics with a ... Read more

On God and LLMs

25 May 2026

The second chapter of Genesis poetically describes the beginning of the human story. “The Lord formed Adam from the dust of the earth,” it reads. ... Read more