How to Deal With Email Effectively

On this episode, I chat with Cal Newport about his fantastic new book, A World Without Email. We chat about:

• How the cost of email is higher than we realize
• The differences between “asynchronous” and “synchronous” ways of communicating, and why they matter
• Cal’s idea of the “hyperactive hive mind”
• How email scrambles our thoughts and makes us anxious
• How to identify the parts of our work we can move outside of email
• How Cal manages his own email
• Key mindset shifts to make with email
• Overcoming the guilt of not checking email
• How to automate email scheduling
• How to set up “email office hours”

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Cal’s new book: A World Without Email
• Cal’s book Deep Work
• Cal’s New Yorker article, Was E-Mail a Mistake?
• Trello boards
• Neal Stephenson’s essay, Why I Am a Bad Correspondent
• Meeting schedulers
  • ScheduleOnce
  • X.ai
  • Calendly

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