Over the last decade, Cal Newport has become something of a modern workplace ombudsman. A professor of computer science at Georgetown, his books have addressed the ways in which technology can be a cognitive drain on “knowledge workers,” people whose jobs require them to process information. He tackled distracted multi-tasking in Deep Work, the mindless use of digital devices in Digital Minimalism, and forever trying to dig to the bottom of our inboxes in A World Without Email. His latest book... Read this story
