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 ...

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 ...

Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University, has never had a social media account in his life. The author of five self-improvement books focused on academic and ...

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 ...

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Dreading the amount of time you spend going through your inbox? The problem may not be the tool but with how we're using it, says Cal Newport. This is the exact type of break you should be taking when ...

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 ...

Cal Newport The right measure of useful effort is actually finishing things that are valuable and the best way to do that is to slow down, work on fewer things at the same time, do those things really ...

How many times a day do you check your smartphone? For the average American, that number is 52. According to Deloitte's Global Mobile Survey, 63 percent of respondents said they have tried to limit ...