647: Cal Newport: How to Break Free from Your Email Inbox

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Cal Newport reveals how the rise of email led to a productivity disaster and what we can do to change that.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How email changed the way we work for worse

2) Simple strategies for cutting down the email back-and-forth

3) Why we feel guilty when we don’t respond—and what to do about it

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— ABOUT CAL —

Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In addition to researching cutting edge technology, he also writes about the impact of these innovations on our culture. Newport is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism, which argues that we should be much more selective about the technologies we adopt in our personal lives, and Deep Work, which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace.

Newport’s work has been published in over 25 languages and has been featured in many major publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Washington Post, and Economist, and his long-running blog Study Hacks, which receives over 3 million visits a year. He’s also a frequent guest on NPR.

• Cal’s book: A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

• Cal’s book: Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World)

• Cal’s podcast: Deep Questions

• Cal’s planner: Time Block Planner

• Cal’s website: CalNewport.com

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• Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

• Previous episode: 632: How to Reclaim 40 Hours Every Month (WITHOUT Multitasking!) with Dave Crenshaw

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0:00.0	Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast. The show where brilliant
0:05.3	professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at
0:09.4	work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host, Peek
0:15.2	Makaitas.
0:18.4	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 647 with Cal Newport. Cal was on my
0:24.9	list. Oh, guests. I wanted from the inception of the show. So hey, 647 episodes
0:30.6	later is a great time for him. He's got a great bit of work and thought
0:35.4	associated with the end of email. Why email is problematic and how you could
0:41.4	break free from your own email inbox. So you'll learn one, how email change the
0:46.0	way we work for the worse. Two, simple strategies for cutting down that email
0:50.4	back and forth. And three, why we feel guilty, but we don't respond. Even if we
0:54.8	quote shouldn't and what to do about it. So if you want to check out the show
0:57.9	notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced drop on by
1:00.6	awesome at your job.com slash EP 647. And if more emails, what you need. Sorry,
1:07.2	I couldn't resist. Well, Cal is talking about the good and the bad uses of email.
1:11.7	And I think one good use of email is the gold nugget email newsletter, which
1:16.0	enables you to access the wisdom of this conversation with Cal and every guest
1:20.1	who's gone before him in a quick email, you can read in about two or three
1:23.4	minutes and access to the vault of all 647 guests. So
1:28.0	prudently discern if that is an appropriate use of your email. Legions of
1:33.4	people have decided that it is. So that's that story. Here's Cal's story.
1:37.2	Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown
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