A brief book update: I wanted to share that Slow Productivity debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list last week! Which is ... Read more
Do We Need AI to Revolutionize Work? - Cal Newport
In recent months, I’ve been doing a fair number of interviews about my new book, Slow Productivity. I’m often asked during these conversations about the ... Read more
The Workload Fairy Tale - Cal Newport
Over the past four years, a remarkable story has been quietly unfolding in the knowledge sector: a growing interest in the viability of a 4-day ... Read more
ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?
The biggest thing in tech since the iPhone was basically an accident.
The Perfect Cheating Machine? - Cal Newport
Many predictions and concerns tumbled into the slipstream trailing ChatGPT’s dazzling, turbulent entrance onto the technology scene in late 2022. Few of these initial warnings ... Read more
ChatGPT Both Is and Is Not Like a Calculator
Still talking about ChatGPT because there’s a lot at stake to getting this right.
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
Forget Chatbots. You Need a Notebook. - Cal Newport
Back in 2012, as a young assistant professor, I traveled to Berkeley to attend a wedding. On the first morning after we arrived, my wife ... Read more
AI and Work (Some Predictions) - Cal Newport
One of the main topics of this newsletter is the quest to cultivate sustainable and meaningful work in a digital age. Given this objective, it’s ... Read more
Habits vs. Workflows - Cal Newport
Productive Pondering As I transition from the slow freedom of summer to the constrained energy of fall, my thoughts have been gravitating back towards nuts ... Read more
If you’re not using ChatGPT for your writing, you’re probably making a mistake
How Ethan and Lilach Mollick learned to stop worrying and start using AI in their jobs.
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ChatGPT Work with GPT-5.6
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A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication.We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes--not haphazard messaging--define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. Each person works on fewer things (but does them better), and aggressive investment in support reduces the ever-increasing burden of administrative tasks. Above all else, important communication is streamlined, and inboxes and chat channels are no longer central to how work unfolds.The knowledge sector's evolution beyond the hyperactive hive mind is inevitable. The question is not whether a world without email is coming (it is), but whether you'll be ahead of this trend. If you're a CEO seeking a competitive edge, an entrepreneur convinced your productivity could be higher, or an employee exhausted by your inbox, A World Without Email will convince you that the time has come for bold changes, and will walk you through exactly how to make them happen.
Collections: On ChatGPT
So I stirred up a bit of conversation on Twitter last week when I noted that I had already been handed ChatGPT produced assignments. For those who are unaware, ChatGPT is an ‘AI’ chatbo…
