Book · recommended on 5 episodes
A World Without Email
Cal Newport ISBN 0525536574
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Cal Newport ISBN 0525536574
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This book by Cal Newport has come up 5 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Cal Newport, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-03-05 and the most recent from 2022-10-11. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Now, you might know me from some of my recent books, such as Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email.”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Tara Brach, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, and Cal Newport: A compilation episode hosted by Tim Ferriss featuring four guests: Tara Brach (meditation teacher and former clinical psychologist, author of Radical Acceptance, creator of the RAIN practice); Ryan Holiday (author of 13 books and creator of the Daily Stoic); Maria Popova (writer behind The Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings); and Cal Newport (Georgetown CS professor and author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism). A curated podcast buffet where four friends of Tim Ferriss share favorite clips on presence, Stoic questions, reading, and time management.
“Cal is the author of seven books including most recently Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, New Yorker contributing writer, and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Here he interviews host Tim Ferriss for a New Yorker piece revisiting The 4-Hour Workweek. Cal Newport interviews Tim Ferriss about how The 4-Hour Workweek warned of unsustainable knowledge work fifteen years early.
“links to everything all the resources to all of Cal's books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and his latest A World Without Email”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University (PhD from MIT) who researches the theory of distributed systems. He is a New Yorker contributing writer, host of the Deep Questions podcast, and author of seven books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Cal Newport on building a deep life through slow productivity, digital minimalism, craft, and contemplation in an age of distraction.
“He's also written an excellent book, "A world without Email." I've never met him, but I'm a huge admirer of his work”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. This is a solo episode with no guest. Huberman explains the dopamine biology of ADHD and shares drug, diet, supplement, and behavioral tools anyone can use to sharpen focus.
“He has a new book out called a world without email where he argues brilliantly i would say that email is destroying productivity”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Cal Newport: Computer scientist at Georgetown specializing in distributed-algorithm impossibility results, and bestselling author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. He doesn't use social media and hosts the Deep Questions podcast. Cal Newport unpacks why context-switching destroys focus, how email's hidden workflow wrecks productivity, and why relationships beat hustle.
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