Despite being a Newport fan, I’m not sure that this is required reading in the productivity genre. Newport does have some good ideas that you may be able to implement to cut your email workflow, but I don’t think he’s making the big leap in productivity that he feels knowledge work needs to see the same productivity gains workers saw in with factories.

The thing about these types of changes, they happen slowly then all at once. We seem to still be in the “slowly” phase where many people are adding small steps in a direction that will prove fruitful.

I do think that Newport adds one of these steps, but not the big one we need to really have a wholesale change in the way we work.

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