Friday, October 15, 2004
Critical Section - The Tyranny of Email
Email, that great communicator. Interestingly, this article has surfaced in the blog world after about 18 months - though it made an impression at the time too. It offers some interesting advice for dealing with email - though in my book, it's slightly too simplified and focuses on one group of users and style of working only. It's key recommendation is
Turn your email client off. Pick the moment at which you'll be interrupted.
which will make a big difference to your working day. For some activities, I agree with this, but not for others.
One could also extend this into other technologies too - turn your phone off (we do, often) and turn your sidebar off (or whatever you use to monitor and access rss feeds with) - I don't.
But now I am going to focus on other work and stop blogging for a while - too many distractions if I continue.....
Email, that great communicator. Interestingly, this article has surfaced in the blog world after about 18 months - though it made an impression at the time too. It offers some interesting advice for dealing with email - though in my book, it's slightly too simplified and focuses on one group of users and style of working only. It's key recommendation is
Turn your email client off. Pick the moment at which you'll be interrupted.
which will make a big difference to your working day. For some activities, I agree with this, but not for others.
One could also extend this into other technologies too - turn your phone off (we do, often) and turn your sidebar off (or whatever you use to monitor and access rss feeds with) - I don't.
But now I am going to focus on other work and stop blogging for a while - too many distractions if I continue.....
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