693 - A World without Email with Cal Newport

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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For the past year, I have been addicted to reading news even though I've promised myself years ago not to look at the news. However, the news nowadays doesn't portray the entire truth or sometimes flat out wrong, I felt like I have to translate them to the audience what was the real news. So because of that, I was reading the news a lot more, on social media a lot more, and even argue with the "keyboard warrior"! So much that I was burnt out, and completely stop all my social media activities, and that accidentally led to me not looking and not responding to my email as much! Fortunate enough, Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University, also a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, came out with the new book, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload. We talked about the data on how email affects day-to-day life, and what are the effective ways of using email without getting burnt out! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. Also, my new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:17.4	So the past few months I've sort of been, I have to in an experiment.
0:21.7	Sometimes people have wondered what I've been up to because I haven't posted as much
0:25.8	on social media. I haven't written as much, haven't emailed as much.
0:30.4	And I basically, I was felt overwhelmed by social media.
0:35.2	And this is not just in the past few months, but for the past like 11 years.
0:39.8	But particularly during this pandemic, early on in the pandemic, I felt for the first time
0:44.7	in 10 years it was important to read the news because I felt that the news was so wrong
0:49.2	most of the time.
0:50.2	I wanted to almost translate it so that people wouldn't, would understand what the headlines
0:55.4	were saying, why the headlines were wrong or why some of these articles were wrong or
0:59.4	biased.
1:00.4	And I'm talking particularly the ones about the coronavirus or the economy or whatever.
1:04.5	So I started reading the news a lot more.
1:06.3	I started getting on social media a lot more.
1:08.2	I was doing podcasts every day, which I might get back to.
1:11.9	But I feel like I got a little burnt out then for the first time in a long time on social
1:16.2	media.
1:17.2	So I completely stopped social media.
1:20.4	And that sort of by almost my accident led to me stopping email, not 100% stopping email
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