CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Now, how many e-mails have you received today? And are you on multiple WhatsApp groups? Do you feel sometimes like your brain is in meltdown, trying to cope with it all? Our next ...

In 2004, when Cal Newport was still an undergrad at Dartmouth, all his friends were making accounts on a new website called Facebook. Newport opted out. This was not the moral or political objection ...

Coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic, young workers were embracing "quiet quitting," or the act of doing your work, but not going above and beyond. The move was seen as a rejection of hustle culture ...

If you're toying with the idea of quitting social media, there's a simple question that can help you decide: Are you a victim of the "any-benefit" mindset? That's a term coined by Cal Newport, an ...

The professor and prolific author has released his eighth book, ‘Slow Productivity,’ which encourages readers to fight the scourge of ‘pseudo-productivity.’ By focusing on fewer tasks at once, Newport ...

A couple of years ago, I decided to liberate myself from my inbox. My personal Gmail had become unusable. For every email containing something useful, there were six from every place I’d ever swiped ...

Writing Routines is close look at the craft of writing, through the eyes of its very best practitioners. Sign up to receive good, practical writing advice from some of the best thinkers around. His ...

"Digital decluttering" means taking a break from technology in order to re-evaluate your tech habits and make permanent changes. That's according to Cal Newport, author of "Digital Minimalism." ...

We’re a year into the pandemic and science has now confirmed Zoom calls are really, really exhausting, You probably knew that from personal experience by now, but research shows Zoom fatigue is real ...