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Podcast: Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity and Entrepreneurship
Episode: The E-mail Productivity Curve by Cal Newport on Workplace Efficiency
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Episode 1698:
Cal Newport challenges the conventional wisdom that quick email replies signify productivity, revealing how excessive time spent on email can reduce overall effectiveness. He introduces the "E-mail Productivity Curve" to show that after a certain point, more responsiveness leads to diminishing, and even negative, returns in meaningful work output.
Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/06/18/the-e-mail-productivity-curve/
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