# Cal Newport

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/cal-newport/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut one moment of Cal Newport (Professor of computer science, Georgetown University) talking, from an interview on Prof G Markets published Oct 9, 2026.

- Role: Professor of computer science, Georgetown University
- About: Wrote Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, bestselling books on technology, focus and living well in a distracted age.

## What Cal Newport said

- [Enterprise AI adoption is real but harder to turn into ROI](https://realalpha.app/s/enterprise-ai-adoption-is-real-but-harder-to-turn-into-roi/)
  Prof G Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min
  > “I think the ROI right now is very mixed. I think there is heavy investment in this technology by enterprise, but a lot of this is experimental.” — Cal Newport · [56:49](https://realalpha.app/v/WuIITyh_Q4g/?t=3409)

## The episode

- [Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting On The Wrong Kind Of AI](https://realalpha.app/v/WuIITyh_Q4g/) · Prof G Markets · Oct 9, 2026