097: Email Anxiety and Euphoria with Andy Mitchell
How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Pete Mockaitis
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Show Notes
ActiveInbox founder Andy Mitchell shares insights gleaned from years of collaborating with the many diverse users of his email and task management software product.
You’ll Learn:
- Why email won’t die for a while… and what to do in the meantime
- Why we experience euphoria at an empty inbox, and how to get there more often
- How to avoid the productivity death spiral triggered by working late
About Andy
Andy Mitchell is the founder of ActiveInbox for Gmail, an email tool and task manager combined into one. He maintains an ethos of ‘leaving more in the world than I take out of it.’ Day to day, he’s trying to ensure the team is all pulling in the same direction to craft the best product they can. Prior to ActiveInbox, he worked in a number of high-tech roles at LocallyCompared, ProductiveFirefox, Dakin Flathers, and MeeCard.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Tool: ActiveInbox
- Book: The Winner Effect by Ian Robertson
- Book: The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
- Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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