A World Without Email Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing

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🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This weekend we're rerunning an interview with Cal Newport who joined us a while back to talk about his latest book, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload.

Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations, a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work.

We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Saturday, August 20th, and we are continuing our weekends with our favorite authors and interviews.
0:14.6	So these are interviews that we have conducted in the past, and we are re-airing them through these late summer weekends to give me and
0:23.8	Mark a chance to take some time off, but also to give you the opportunity to be a little more
0:28.0	thoughtful about the way you're approaching your work life, your personal life.
0:33.7	And I think you're really going to love this interview.
0:36.3	This is one of our favorites.
0:38.0	This is Cal Newport.
0:39.7	He is a storied author.
0:43.0	The book that he came on to talk about with us in this interview is a world without email,
0:49.2	reimagining work in an age of communication overload.
0:53.5	I love Cal. And by the way, Cal blurbed my new book,
0:56.9	so I love them even more. So it's very nice. Okay, here's the first part of our re-aired interview with
1:02.6	Cal Newport. The new book is called A World Without Email, Reimagining work in an Age of Communication
1:10.4	Overload. And you start the book with a story
1:14.2	about dark Tuesday in the administration of President Barack Obama. Can you tell us a little bit
1:21.3	about that story and why you started the book with that? Well, it was a task force that the Obama administration had pulled
1:29.6	together and it was under, I believe, maybe it was the Department of Commerce. And so this group
1:35.9	gathers together in Washington, D.C. And I profile Nisha Shara, who was running this group. He came
1:41.3	down to run this group. and a computer virus hits them,
1:44.6	almost immediately. The Department of Homeland Security comes in and says, all right, everyone,
1:48.8	we need to take your computers because I guess it's a security threat or something like this.
1:53.4	Oh, and by the way, because of government secrecy rules, you can't use your own computers.
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