097: Email Anxiety and Euphoria with Andy Mitchell
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 16 December 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 97 with Andy Mitchell. |
| 0:26.5 | Andy is a software guru who has been so much time thinking about emails and task management and how they intersect. |
| 0:35.8 | So he's got some brilliance that he shared with us, including one, why email won't die for |
| 0:41.5 | a while and what to do in the meantime? |
| 0:43.6 | 2. Why would we experience euphoria at an empty inbox |
| 0:47.3 | and how to get there more often? |
| 0:48.6 | And 3. How to avoid the productivity death spiral triggered by working late. So if you'd like to check out the show |
| 0:55.3 | notes, the transcript, the links to items we've discussed, you'll find that over at awesome |
| 0:59.8 | at your job. |
| 1:03.0 | and while you're there, I recommend you take a look at some of the other cool offerings |
| 1:06.9 | we have handy at awesome at your job.com and in particular I would draw your |
| 1:12.3 | attention to a special I'm running right now on |
| 1:15.1 | training. So my enhanced thinking and collaboration program, the one that has shown to have about |
| 1:22.4 | a 1.4 hour reduction per team member per week in time wasted |
| 1:27.9 | due to having more effective means of communicating succinctly and collaborating such that there's less |
| 1:33.0 | rework needs to happen. That I am offering a $1,000 discount off. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm calling it the Honeymoon Special as I'm wrapping up my Honeymoon |
| 1:41.0 | when this episode releases. |
| 1:42.6 | So if you reach out to me with some interest |
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