Can you imagine your job without email or Zoom?

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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I’ve talked a lot about Cal Newport’s provocations about abolishing email (and Zoom calls) [find them here and here].

And in fact, I had someone last week astonished when I suggested we should try to limit video calls to eight hours a week. They thought I’d lost my mind. How would we get things done unless we were on video calls all day?

This default to video and emails is what Cal Newport calls the Hyperactive Hive Mind.

He’s convinced that we’ll look back at the way we’re working right now and be embarrassed we optimised for what was easy rather than what was productive. Cal outlines how we should be setting about to fix work - by changing our relationship with technology.

It is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant provocation that is unique to him and I think will give all us reason to reflect.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. I'm Bruce Dazley. It's a podcast about making work better.
0:10.0	Thank you for listening. I'm really grateful for you being here. It's all a bit hectic at the moment with no
0:17.4	Child care in the world gone mad and I've got some family illness as well so it's all incredibly intense the amount so I'm so
0:25.8	grateful to be here and look I mean at last we've finally got something to look forward to June 21st.
0:34.0	Never have I wanted to go.
0:35.6	It's going to be never ever wanted to go out to a club so much.
0:40.5	Normally, like most of us, the idea of going to a club is something that gets suggested
0:45.2	at about 7 o'clock in the evening and then thankfully long forgotten by the end of the night.
0:50.2	But I'm very much looking forward to going out on summer solstice. I mean maybe we should all agree to
0:58.4	rendezvous down at Stonehenge, see the end of lockdown in together. Anyway so some degree of
1:07.0	optimism because it means that right now a lot of businesses around the
1:11.3	country are going to be starting to think, right, what can we do to get ourselves back on an even keel?
1:19.0	You know, whether the vision of work that we're imagining is this hybrid model that everyone's talking about,
1:25.0	or maybe we're just really longing to getting the team back together full time in the office.
1:30.0	Then for the first time I think we've got a sense that we can start planning it
1:33.6	and we can start building that. So really exciting to be laying that out together.
1:39.3	And I think, you know, in the context of that, it's going to be a really good episode for you today.
1:45.0	I personally find that there's no one more provocative and there's no one who asks more of the questions that just generally don't get asked
1:55.8	than Cal Newport so it's brilliant to have him along I'll just give before I go to
2:01.0	that introduction I'll give just a quick shout out to the newsletter.
2:04.8	On the newsletter last week I went through that Twitter thread that's been going around by
2:10.9	Chris Herds.
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