As you probably know, I've launched my You Are Not Your Inbox, so I'm revisiting some of my old thoughts about Email Overload. Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article ("What's So Bad about Information Overload?") on information overload...
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The Key Business Concepts Missing From The National Debt Debate
In business, if you decide to do a project you scope out the project. You estimate what it will cost, over what time frame it will produce results, and so on. Then you decide how to finance it. There are many, many possibilities: you might finance it by paying for it...
Job hunting process
As we've been developing JobTacToe.com, we've been discovering that most job hunters we've encountered don't seem to have particularly good process in mind. They don't know what they should do each day. They have no metrics set up to know if they're making progress....
1 Step To Start Regaining Control Of Your Inbox
I spent a couple of hours today methodically unsubscribing from several years' worth of newsletters, subscriptions, etc. It's amazing how freeing it feels to see browser window after browser window saying, "Thank you, you will no longer receive these emails." I didn't...
Is The Marketplace of Ideas Turning Into a Swamp?
We take it for granted that making things easier is always a good thing. I disagree. Sometimes it is, while sometimes it isn't. Today, I've been contemplating the case where maybe it's good to make things harder. Technology has made it so that anyone can produce music...
Give Yourself Some Slack Time
One of the most important things that I've learned is that you can only be up to 100% efficient - you can't get 25 hours of work done in a day. How do you know when you're at the point of diminishing returns? We all want to believe we can add one more thing to our...
I’m still not convinced Inbox Zero is necessary
Time spent processing email simply isn’t necessarily time well spent. If you’re going to argue with that statement, show me the data.
Peek behind the curtain: Who actually benefits from your ‘extended warranty’?
I bought a printer recently. The store clerk offered to sell me the 3-year warranty, which cost 1/3 as much as the entire printer. I confess, the very idea astounded me. Apparently, I'm supposed to believe that the printer can't be expected to last 3 entire years...
Do we create our institutions to stifle creativity?
Our organizations stifle innovation and creativity not out of maliciousness, but out of a side-effect of the way we design and run them.
Inbox Zero and the Critical Mistake That Saps Productivity
Inbox Zero is an obsession with many people. I propose that Inbox Zero is often a waste of time, and people over-emphasize email’s importance.