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Ben Kieffer speaks with Georgetown University computer science professor and New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport about his latest book, "A World Without Email."

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A World Without Email, the responses were pretty much universal: “Captain Obvious.” “Not another anti-email fantasy.” We all know the email overload is killing our productivity, draining our attention and destroying our ability to focus. Do we really need a whole book to tell us what we all already know? It turns out that we do. A World Without Email is surprisingly awesome. Well, I do have some pushbacks and complaints for its author -- Georgetown CS professor Cal Newport -- which I’ll get to below. But first, let me try to convince you to read the book. Despite the book’s title,...