A World Without Email was a follow up to deep work. The book is about Slack, but it's also about email and text messaging. People don't talk about email addiction in the same way they talk about social media addiction; I think it really is the kind of the work equivalent. It triggered as an unexpected side effect, a new way of collaborating where we can just figure things out on the fly with unscheduled back and forth messages.
Cal Newport is one of the world’s leading thinkers on how technology affects the way we live, work and think. Cal is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is also New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his three latest: A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Cal is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker and the host of the popular Deep Questions podcast.
In his second appearance on the show, Cal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about how we can improve our workstyles, slow productivity, Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter, and the future of social media.
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