Time and Attention

48: A World Without Email

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On this episode, I chat with Cal Newport about his fantastic new book, A World Without Email. We chat about:

  • How the cost of email is higher than we realize
  • The differences between “asynchronous” and “synchronous” ways of communicating, and why they matter
  • Cal’s idea of the “hyperactive hive mind”
  • How email scrambles our thoughts and makes us anxious
  • How to identify the parts of our work we can move outside of email
  • How Cal manages his own email
  • Key mindset shifts to make with email
  • Overcoming the guilt of not checking email
  • How to automate email scheduling
  • How to set up “email office hours”

    • Links mentioned in this episode:

    • Cal’s new book: A World Without Email
    • Cal’s book Deep Work
    • Cal’s New Yorker article, Was E-Mail a Mistake?
    • Trello boards
    • Neal Stephenson’s essay, Why I Am a Bad Correspondent
    • Meeting schedulers
      • ScheduleOnce
      • X.ai
      • Calendly

        • You can listen (and subscribe) to the podcast below!

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