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Ep. 233: Escaping Your Tyrannical Inbox

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Hyperactive Hybrid Mind Mode of Collaboration

As email became increasingly integrated into the workplace, slack came later and other types of tools like teams. We developed a mode of collaboration that I call the hyperactive hive mind. If we're trying to figure something out, we will just start sending messages back and forth. When I see a message from you, I'll reply to it. You'll reply at some point. And we figured this thing out. My whole book rolled without emails about this, so I won't go into too much detail.

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