#317 - Cal Newport - How To Master Your Email Overload

2021/5/6

Modern Wisdom

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Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and an author.

Email has changed the way we collaborate and work. Free, frictionless, instant communication sounds great, but many workers are tyrannised by their email inbox, no matter how many productivity tools they add in. Cal is proposing a new type of solution to this overload.

Expect to learn why workers checking their email every 6 minutes is neutering productivity, how reducing your email can improve how good you are at your job, why you need more than 5 email addresses, Cal's advice for changing your company culture around email and much more...

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