A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

Cal Newport, an internationally known writer and professor of computer science at Georgetown University, explains how we got to the culture of constant communication and how it affects our productivity and mental health.

At one time, the arrival of email caused a sensation, but today it has become a real problem. The boundaries between tasks blur, the workday turns into an endless stream of communications, and even the very methods we work with are threatened.

From this book—based on business cases and the latest research in psychology and neurobiology—you’ll learn:

— what hyperactive collective intelligence is, and what its pros and cons are;

— how to think systematically and how to connect people’s intellects into one working chain;

— how to extract maximum value in the most rational way;

— how to redesign the work process in an organization, in a team, and for individual employees, and much more.

Changes to work processes in the intellectual sphere are inevitable, and if we want to use digital communication tools with maximum efficiency, it’s time to optimize how we work with them.