The Knowledge Management Series: Cal Newport | A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Join us on Unmistakable Creative for a thought-provoking conversation with Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University and a New York Times bestselling author. In this episode, Newport delves into the concept of a world without email, exploring how our current approach to knowledge work is broken and how we can fix it.

Discover how Newport, the author of seven books, including 'A World Without Email,' 'Digital Minimalism,' and 'Deep Work,' believes that the inundation of emails leaves knowledge workers mentally tired and unable to work efficiently. Learn about his blueprint for a more efficient work environment and how his ideas can help you thrive in the new economy.

Newport also discusses his podcast, 'Deep Questions,' where he further explores these concepts. Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in digital minimalism and gain insights that could transform your life and career.

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0:00.0	Most of which we cannot resolve in the moment, right? These are issues that are being brought to us by other people
0:05.1	People we know that we can't solve right now. The question is too big. It's ambiguous
0:09.2	I'm you know, I'm just checking my inbox because I'm in the middle of a conversation
0:12.5	You know training and I are going back and forth about whatever scheduling on podcast
0:16.1	I'm just checking that but I'm seeing all these other messages and
0:18.6	Then you turn your attention back to what you were doing
0:21.2	I haven't exposed yourself to all of these unresolved
0:24.4	Hask that are waiting there and connected to people who need things from you and your brain
0:28.9	Goes haywire because when it sees all these messages it begins the process of okay, we have to switch our context
0:35.1	We have to begin suppressing these networks and amplifying these networks to get ready to deal with these new things and halfway through that process
0:41.0	You bring your attention back to the thing you're writing or the code you're trying to pipe up or whatever it is and your brain is now in a
0:47.7	Cognitive catastrophe of crossed wires and aborted contact shifts. It makes it incredibly hard to think it also exhausts us
0:57.0	It's not a failure of will you've literally tired out your mind
1:04.3	I'm Srinny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most
1:10.9	Innovative and creative minds who've started movements built driving businesses written best selling books and created and
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1:26.6	Cal welcome back to the unmistakable creative for what probably is the fourth or fifth time
1:32.0	Yes, it's it's always glad to be back. I get I get lonely when too much time goes by without having a chance to chat with you
1:38.0	Maybe that's why I write books
1:42.4	I to me that that's great because I love your books
1:45.3	I'm always happy when you have a new one and I'm always like oh when's the next one coming out?
1:49.2	So you have a new book out called a world without email all of which we will get into but as you know from previous experience
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