Email is Making Us Miserable

Emails, along with other forms of unscheduled messaging, may be more of a detriment to the workplace than people may have previously thought. The concept of "this meeting could have been an email," may not be that accurate. To hear more about about the philosophy behind digital minimalism, The 21st spoke to the author of Deep Work and A World Without Email.

Guest:

Cal Newport, Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown and author of A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism and Deep Work

Prepared for web by Zainab Qureshi

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