Do you enjoy email? What about Slack? Any other professional messaging system?

Obviously you’re less happy, but have you ever stopped to ask if they actually make you more productive? What if they’re actually making the whole organization worse off?

In his latest book, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, Cal Newport lays out the problems with email/slack and what you can do to improve the situation.

In this episode, the humans discuss the book, the issues with email, how the problems started without anyone noticing, and what you can do to improve your productivity and happiness at the same time.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehyand Evan.