How To Master Your Email Overload - Cal Newport - #317

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, you beautiful humans. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Cal Newport. He's an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and an author, and we are talking about how to master your email overload. Email has changed the way that we collaborate and work. Free, frictionless, instant communication sounds great, but many workers are tyrannized by their email inbox, no matter how many productivity tools they add in. Cal is proposing a very new type of solution to this overload. Expect to learn why workers checking their email inbox every six minutes is neutering productivity, how reducing your email can improve how good you are at your job, why you need more than five email addresses, Cal's advice for changing your company culture around email and much more. Every time that Cal writes a book, whether it be Deep Work or Digital Minimalism or A World Without Email, this new one, it does seem to change the perspective of a particular corner of the world around how we should be looking at productivity. And I can predict, if I was to look into my crystal ball, I predict that we are going to see some changes in email, perhaps kicked off by this book, but more so just kicked off by the fact that people do not like their relationship with their email. It's unnecessary. It causes them ambient anxiety. And as Cal says, it's completely annihilating any productivity that we could achieve. So, listen to this podcast incredibly carefully. And if you enjoy it, share it with a friend, because it will save an awful lot of people from an awful lot of wasted time checking their inbox. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Surfshark VPN. 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