Floating Mountains · What Did They Read?

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Combating the Whirlwind with a Single Sheet of Paper

Deep Questions with Cal Newport, 5 October 2026. The book comes up at 57 min 8 sec in.

Cal Newport read Floating Mountains, a memoir by Joe Road — described as a famous Disney Imagineer who ran Animal Kingdom — which came out in September. Newport enjoyed it but found it, like other Imagineer memoirs, frustratingly focused on the creative brainstorming process rather than the technical engineering details he prefers.

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September 2026

Combating the Whirlwind with a Single Sheet of Paper

Compiled from Cal Newport’s Deep Questions. Books read, not necessarily recommendations.

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