Tag: A World Without Email
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A World Without Email | The Specialization Principle
How do we get out of the mess that email has made? Cal Newport, in his book A World Without Email, lays out a few principles that could help individuals and organizations get out of this mess we’ve made. First, Newport argues that organizations must prioritize their worker’s attention. Knowledge work require great depth of […]
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A World Without Email | The Protocol Principle
Email is terrible. But Cal Newport has answers for the problem of email: the attention capital principle and the process principle. In the next chapter, Newport lays out the next principle: the protocol principle. The protocol principle seeks to “optimize when and how coordination occurs in the workplace” (187). In other words, what are the […]
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A World Without Email | The Process Principle
Newport opens his book examining the problems that email has brought upon the world of knowledge work. He then attempts to solve these problems by laying out a few principles. He first argues that organizations should focus on focus, guarding their employee’s attention. Next, Newport focuses on the “process principle.” Knowledge work can be more […]
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A World Without Email | The Attention Capital Principle
After exploring the problems with email, Cal Newport dives into different ways to solve them with several principles. The first principle is the “attention capital principe.” Newport essentially argues that the most valuable asset knowledge workers have is their brains. Since the human mind is what produces value in knowledge work, it needs to be […]
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A World Without Email | The Problem of Email
Cal Newport’s book A World Without Email explores the problems that email has brought upon the world of knowledge and how to counteract them. While the book puts “email” in the title, the bigger problem is what Newports calls the “hyperactive hive-mind”: having your mind bound back and forth between various messages and therefore constantly […]