Book Titles

A World Without Email
Reimagining work in an age of communication overload

By Cal Newport

Year Published: 2021
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-53655-0
Categories: Communication, E-Mail, Thinking

118 Quotes Found

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A World Without Email:

To get the full value of attention capital, we must start taking seriously the way we structure work.

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A World Without Email:

The optimal way to deploy our human brains is sequentially.

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A World Without Email:

…seek workflows that (1) minimize mid-task context switches and (2) minimize the sense of communication overload.

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A World Without Email:

The key is to find ways to minimize context shifts and overload while still getting done what needs to get done.

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A World Without Email:

The thing about custom tools… is that it’s hard to get them running consistently.

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In modern knowledge work, we’ve largely lost interest in moving boldly ahead, embracing the resulting hardships as the cost of doing business better than before.

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A World Without Email:

Once we… start systematically rethinking how we work, we’ll inevitably create short-term inconvenience on our way to long-term improvement.

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A World Without Email:

In business, good is not the same as easy, and fulfilling is not the same as convenient.

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A World Without Email:

…in knowledge work, you must maintain skilled workers’ autonomy in how they actually apply their craft. – Peter Drucker

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The attention capital principle asks you to experiment… with the workflows that structure how this work is assigned and reviewed.

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