Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the theory of distributed systems, as well as a New York Times bestselling author who writes for a broader audience about the intersection of technology and culture. He's the author of seven books, including Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, which have been published in over thirty languages. He's also a regular contributor on these topics to national publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Wired, and is a frequent guest on NPR. His blog, Study Hacks, which he's been publishing since 2007, attracts over three million visits a year. He lives with his wife and three sons in Takoma Park, Maryland.
“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, cofounder 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
“When a Cal Newport book appears, I drop everything and read. With
evidence and examples from the cutting edge of programming to the
factory floors of a century ago, Newport makes a compelling
argument that we can and will do much, much better than email. Read
this superb book. It might just change your life; it’s changing
mine.”
--Tim Harford, author of The Data Detective
“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 A. Perlow, author of Sleeping with Your Smartphone and
professor of leadership at Harvard Business School
"This book defines the scale of a problem too few of us knew
existed...it’s a profound insight."
--The Financial Times
"Ford studied how to improve productivity and organize the factory
floor. Now, Newport is doing the same for knowledge work."
--Fortune
"A surprisingly zippy history of email that notes how suddenly
email changed the way workers worked…This book has smart
recommendations for individuals and organizations."
--Laura Vanderkam for the Wall Street Journal
"Newport’s systems-oriented approach is far more promising than the
standard personal productivity fare. His ideas are meant to stop
the flood altogether."
--GQ
"For knowledge workers in any organization, this analysis and
recommendations will resonate."
--Forbes
"This book is a step forward...Newport makes the radical argument
that companies that obsess about efficiency are utterly failing to
question their own workflows. They are making their products worse,
and they are just contributing to an overall degradation of
society. It’s a pretty stunning indictment."
--Ezra Klein for the Ezra Klein Show
"This book provides a lens through which we can better examine what
many of us sense is a somewhat maddening way to work…here’s to
hoping your boss picks up a copy."
--GQ
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