New York Times bestselling author and productivity expert Cal Newport offers a radical vision for an email free workplace
Cal Newport is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller, Digital Minimalism, The Time-Block Planner, Deep Work and So Good They Can't Ignore You and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. You won't find him on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram but you can often find him at home with his family in Washington DC or writing essays for his popular website calnewport.com.
Cal Newport has proved himself as the most essential writer around,
yet again making a compelling case for us to renegotiate our
relationship with technology
*Bruce Daisley, author of Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The Joy of
Work*
Life is full of interruptions, but when a Cal Newport book appears,
I drop everything and read. Newport is making an outrageous claim
here: not just that email is annoying and overwhelming, but that we
can and we will do much, much better. But with evidence and
examples from the cutting edge of programming to the factory floors
of a century ago, he makes a compelling argument. Read this superb
book. It might just change your life; it's changing mine
*Tim Harford, author of 'How To Make The World Add Up'*
This is the book I didn't know I desperately needed. If you are
currently drowning in endless email and not sure where to start:
read this book
*Emma Gannon, author of Sunday Times bestseller The Multi-Hyphen
Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete*
A World Without Email crystallizes what so many of us feel
intuitively but haven't been able to explain: the way we're working
isn't working. Cal Newport charts a path back to sanity, offering a
variety of road-tested practices to help us escape the tyranny of
our inboxes and achieve a calmer, more intentional, and more
productive working life
*Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox*
The future of work demands new tools of collaboration. Cal Newport
is on a quest to uncover better ways for knowledge workers to
collaborate. Out of this will come the new work space
*Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick for Wired*
This new work from Cal Newport goes beyond hacking at the branches
of the email problem and strikes right at the root of it. This is a
bold, visionary, almost prophetic book that challenges the status
quo. If you want to peer into what the future of work could look
like, read this book now
*Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism:
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less*
This book is a call to action. Newport suggests that now is the
time to reimagine work with the specific goal of optimizing our
brain's ability to sustainably add value. Don't let your teams and
organizations lose out any further - read this book to help you get
started
*Leslie Perlow, author of Sleeping with Your Smartphone and
Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School*
Cal Newport is an essential worker in today's hyperactive
workplace, and his commitment to waking the digital sleepwalker
should be applauded
*Damian Bradfield, co-founder of WeTransfer and author of The Trust
Manifesto*
Newport has defined the scale of a problem too few of us knew
existed
*Financial Times*
A World Without Email delves into the history of communications and
management, arguing that knowledge work processes need a radical
rethink, just as production lines transformed manufacturing in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. Practical and fascinating.
*Financial Times, Best Books of 2021*
A book forthose who feel racked with guilt and anxiety about their
overflowing email inboxes, Cal Newport explains why this modern way
of working needs a radical rethink. Practical and interesting,
Newport examines how we can change this and find focus in 'the age
of overload'.
*The Times, 12 Best Business Books of 2021*
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