Don't see an advisor you admire? Let's add him to the database! - Request

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

Cal Newport
March 2, 2021
Categories:Non-Fiction

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.

Add missing Endorsement

Rendors (4)

3
Tim Ferris Show Guest
1
Thinkers 50
1
Unicorn CEO/Founder
Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
Tim Ferris Show Guest
Unicorn CEO/Founder

A World Without Email crystallizes what so many of us feel intuitively but haven’t been able to explain: the way we’re working isn’t working. Cal Newport charts a path back to sanity, offering a variety of road-tested practices to help us escape the tyranny of our inboxes and achieve a calmer, more intentional, and more productive working life.

Editor, writer, photographer, conservationist
Tim Ferris Show Guest
Thinkers 50

The future of work demands new tools of collaboration. Cal Newport is on a quest to uncover better ways for knowledge workers to collaborate. Out of this will come the new work space.

Author, speaker
Tim Ferris Show Guest

This new work from Cal Newport goes beyond hacking at the branches of the email problem and strikes right at the root of it. This is a bold, visionary, almost prophetic book that challenges the status quo. If you want to peer into what the future of work could look like, read this book now.

Economist, journalist

When a Cal Newport book appears, I drop everything and read. With evidence and examples from the cutting edge of programming to the factory floors of a century ago, Newport makes a compelling argument that we can and will do much, much better than email. Read this superb book. It might just change your life; it’s changing mine.

Subscribe to Blog and Updates:

Popular advisors

Doug McMillon

CEO Walmart

Rendors given:
30

Naval Ravikant

Entrepreneur, investor, founder

Rendors given:
105

Tim Cook

CEO/Apple

Rendors given:
10

Nassim Taleb

Essayist, scholar

Rendors given:
65

Indra Nooyi

CEO PepsiCo

Rendors given:
11