How to Minimize Your Context Switches

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A lot of people had as they were instead saying how do I minimize the time. And that's where they fail. When when they treat the inbox as a given and the messages in there is a given and none of that can change. So this is the hope for people who have been frustrated with their own defensive driving: To stop it from getting so overwhelmed in the first place. It's a completely different ball game.

Cal Newport is the author of Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Cal's new book is A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload. In this conversation Cal talks about the real problem with modern knowledge work, how email and other tech plays into it, how the problem started and how to start getting ahead in the new world of knowledge work that is coming soon.

Tweet or DM me your questions for an upcoming Q & A episode with Cal!

Make sure to check out Cal's article 'When Did Productivity Become Personal?' for further reading on this topic.

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