A World Without Email
In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite.
Cal Newport • Cal Newport, New York Times Bestselling Author of Seven Books
If e-mail were to move to the periphery of your workday, you’d be required to deploy a more thoughtful approach to figuring out what you should be working on and for how long.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Starting in the 1990s, however, a lot of the activity that began dominating the attention of knowledge workers like Mann wasn’t the execution of discrete tasks, but instead interactions with others about these tasks. The introduction of personal computers, followed soon after by electronic communication tools like email, transformed office
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