The Knowledge Management Series: Cal Newport | A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
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Is Email the Backbone of Knowledge Work?
Email is not only killing our productivity but fairly ineffective yet. It's still sort of the backbone of communication and 90% of knowledge organizations. Once email arrived on the scene, we switched over to a workflow that as you said, I called a hyperactive high find. The thing that kills us is I have 13 different back and forth conversations happening via email or via Slack. And so I have to constantly tend those channels to keep this hive mind chatter going.
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