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Show Notes
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
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