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Ep. 209: Email and Living with Purpose

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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In the original movie, tom crewz, san diego, hot sunny day, shirtless volley ball wearing blue jeans. If someone's not responding to your email, it's because you wrote a bad email. Zac says he is less interested in etiquette for pinging people and more interested in getting you to a place where you don't have to ping people at all. Why don't people respond to emales? It's typically because what you sent arrived in their mbox like an ambiguous obligation grenade. They're just like, i don't know what to do with this thing. And if you send it to someone else, it's off your mind, at least for now. You

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