A World Without Email Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This weekend I'm so excited to welcome back Cal Newport to the show, who joins us 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.

There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth.

Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication.

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	Coffee is getting complicated.
0:02.2	Floral rose infusions, undertones of roasted pomegranate and cherry hazelnut notes.
0:07.3	I ordered a coffee, not a pavel over.
0:09.5	Macafé coffees are made with organic milk and freshly ground arrabica beans.
0:14.0	And you know what it tastes like?
0:15.6	Coffee, great tasting coffee.
0:17.7	Simple.
0:23.7	Welcome to the Jill on Money Show, it's Saturday, August 20th.
0:28.0	And we are continuing our weekends with our favorite authors and interviews.
0:34.6	So these are interviews that we have conducted in the past.
0:38.2	And we are re-airing them through these late summer weekends
0:42.9	to give me a market chance to take some time off,
0:45.4	but also to give you the opportunity to be a little more thoughtful
0:48.7	about the way you're approaching your work life, your personal life.
0:53.8	And I think you're really going to love this interview.
0:56.4	This is one of our favorites.
0:58.0	This is Cal Newport.
0:59.7	He is a storied author.
1:03.2	The book that he came on to talk about with us in this interview is a world without email,
1:09.2	re-imagining work in an age of communication overload.
1:13.6	I love Cal.
1:14.4	And by the way, Cal blurbed my new book.
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