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

by Cal Newport

Why is it so hard to do our work? Because our brains were never designed to maintain parallel tracks of attention.

“A man who worked himself to tatters on minor details had no ability to handle the more vital issues of war,” he once said.

Technology helped push us down the road toward diminished specialization and increased overload.

“Knowledge worker productivity is the moonshot of the twenty-first century.”