Cal Newport

The first question is from Enrique.

Let me read it here.

You mentioned you'll be on sabbatical this upcoming year.

What email protocols or rules do you plan to use?

Will you set up an out-of-office auto response?

And if so, what will it say?

How often will you check your Georgetown account and from where?

Well, Enrique is right.

I am on sabbatical for the upcoming academic year, 2026, 2027.

This starts, it's a little bit fuzzy, but basically like the academic year starts at some point in the summer.

I'm still doing a bunch of stuff related to my administrative roles like now in the month of June, but this will continue.

This will eventually I'll sort of enter sabbatical mode as I roll out of those out of those administrative roles over the summer and new people come in and so on.

So what am I going to do with email?

Well, first of all, like the obvious thing is I wear many hats and only some of them are associated with Georgetown roles affected by the sabbatical.

So I don't have service obligations or teaching obligations.

And that is a lot of email.

I have all my other hats.

I have my books.

I'm on my podcast.

Got my newsletter.