Episode 35
This will be a review of Cal Newport's book, Slow Productivity. By the way of introduction, if you've listened to much of my podcast, you know that I pay a fair amount of attention to Cal and what he's doing, because I think he's really bright, really focused on the idea of productivity. If you don't know who he is, you should take a look. He's written several books over his career. He did a Ph.D. in computer science at MIT and then got a tenure track job at Georgetown, where he researches computer science. Cal writes books on the subject of productivity, and he's very thoughtful about that sort of stuff. So just about anything he's written is thought provoking on this subject. In Slow Productivity, he thinks a lot about how to be very effective in his variety of knowledge work. And then he takes that and generalizes it and helps us all understand knowledge work productivity. He's written some fairly controversial ideas. He wrote a book titled A World Without Email, where he does case studies of companies that have gotten rid of email internally. He has some ideas about why, exactly, email might be bad for productivity. It has a lot to do with who assigns whom work, and how do we take this stuff on. Cool Grandpa (with Greg Payne) podcast guest episode
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