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A World Without Email
- Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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From the best-selling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work comes a radical vision of a world without email - a world with increased creativity, productivity, collaboration and calm.
You start the day checking your inbox, spend hours fruitlessly triaging the onslaught of requests and information, then when 5:30 p.m. rolls around you realise with crushing stress that you haven't even got to the most important items on your to-do list yet. Sound familiar?
Constant communication has become part of the way we work and we check our bursting inboxes on average every 5.4 minutes. But at what expense?
In A World Without Email, Cal Newport argues that this steady flow of distractions disrupts us from achieving any meaningful work, causes us undue stress and is costing businesses millions in the form of untapped potential. Newport shows us how to completely reimagine and redesign workflow and processes without the constant pings of emails distracting us.
Drawing on a fascinating array of case studies of thriving email-free companies and offering clear, practical solutions you can implement today, this radical book shows us how dramatically reducing email will liberate people to do their most profound, fulfilling and creative work - and much more of it, too.
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- Viv Chambers - Bricolage
- 16-03-21
Cut to the chase Cal!
Struggling through an audio book about the tyranny of email and being led through first three chapters on the (not riveting) history of email. Cal has done his research for sure but we don't need three chapters defining the problem in detail. We wouldn't have bought the book of we were not well versed! Hoping it gets better from here.
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- Ismael Gutierrez
- 09-05-21
A visionary work
Carl Newport is one of the few voices standing up against this new attention economy and the many predators lurking in the shadows to grasp our focus and feed on it.
This one is his best work yet, a stepping stone in a new way to conceive office work.
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- Georgios Athanassiadis
- 28-03-21
Illuminating and full with easy to implementable strategies and tactics
Well produced and great content. The writer starts by highlighting all the problems with today’s overload of workplace communication and then offers a glimpse of light in the tunnel.
Great read for anyone who want to find a way for knowledge workers to reclaim their effectiveness and sanity.
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- Ashley Linkletter
- 31-03-21
Changing the way you view Email!
A great read to analyse the email phenomenon and how it will evolve in the future and how’s its hindering us in the present. Highly recommend. Some great practical solutions and ideas for consideration.
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- Stephen Buggy
- 29-06-22
Great ideas with little practicality
A world without email, ironically lacks the same kind of focus that he sees in work in general. The strongest part of the book is the idea that the email centred workflow of the office is something that most organisations use unthinkingly, as if this is the only way that work can function, rather than deciding what the best flow of work is for their organisation. Where he is weakest is deciding on solutions. Some of the suggestions seem sensible if you are Prof with full control of your time, but would be impossible to put into practice. I am also very enamoured of his idea that the quantity of focused work is more important than the number of hours.
It feels like a ratio of ten pages of theory to one page of implementation.
Occasionally he mentions things like extreme programming or some other practical implementations of similar ideas to his and as a reader you think: now I would like to read their book.
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- Povilas
- 24-03-21
Too long and action starts too late
As much as I loved "Deep work", disappointed with this one. First few hours of 20 century or even 19 century studies, to prove the point that email is enemy.
When actionable advice finally begins, apparently it's focused on the software organizations and the main tip is around just one system which is trivial to figure out and already is widely spread.
It should have been a Medium article or a Twitter thread, not a full book.
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- Sy Al
- 17-07-21
Game changer
Practical tools to help you produce more value by organising your changing the way you engage with email and other communication channels at work.
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- Caroline
- 16-01-22
Good ideas but quite a lot too long
Useful ideas, seems simple but more to it than there seems at first. Definitely worth listening to if you want to get more efficient and effective at knowledge work.
Could really do with tighter editing as some of it repetitive.
Could also do with better chapter summaries and a final summary as it’s hard to take out key points from discursive text. James Clear Atomic Habits is good at this
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- Hugh Power
- 24-10-21
Convoluted
You lost me delving into the depths of asynchronous computers. Was looking forward to it as well but struggled to get through it.
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