A Strategy to Prevent Email From Eating Up Your Workday

Cal Newport’s advice for automating your workflow

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
Published in
3 min readMar 15, 2021

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Email is a thief disguised as convenience — and its sneaky energy-sucking threatens to ruin our work lives.

Replying to emails and company message threads never feels like it should count as “real” work. After all, have you ever seen a job posting that lists…

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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