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A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
When will we face the reality that “mouse-moving” and status-updating is not productive?
