#152 A World Without Email with Cal Newport
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Modern work is defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations. What this creates is a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect.
In addition to this inability to unplug, is a squeezing of our cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. The type of work that really matters. We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it’s hard to imagine alternatives.
And that’s why I’m speaking with computer science professor Cal Newport today who makes the case that our current approach to work is broken and why digital minimalism is so important.
Cal is a NY Times bestselling author of several books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Many of his articles from his column in the New Yorker and his weekly newsletter have inspired me to create a better working environment for me, my staff with the goal of promoting mental wellbeing and happiness which is why it was such a pleasure to have him on the show today.
His latest book, A World Without Email provides a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox, and unleashing a new era of productivity.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.1 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests, |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chategie, and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitchie. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:49.6 | So you don't want to deprive yourself of solitude. You need that to be a highly functional human |
| 0:54.8 | being. So semi-regular boredom gives you both those things. You break the path of loving |
| 0:58.0 | connection and you get that dose of vitamin solitude that we need every day. |
| 1:04.4 | Welcome to The Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:09.6 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the |
| 1:22.6 | power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the |
| 1:31.2 | multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:40.0 | Modern work is defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back and forth |
| 1:47.7 | digital conversations. And what this creates is a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody |
| 1:54.8 | can disconnect. In addition to this inability to unplug is a squeezing of our cognitive |
| 2:01.7 | bandwidth to perform substantive work, the type of work that really matters. And we've become so |
| 2:08.3 | used to an inbox driven work day that it's it's quite hard to imagine alternatives. And that's why |
| 2:16.0 | I'm speaking with computer science professor Cal Newport today who makes the case that our current |
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