How I Removed Email From My Life

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13 pointsscottporad3 comments

I don't understand everyone's race to move from an asynchronous communication method (email) to synchronous (IM/phone/in-person).

With email, I choose when I get interrupted. With any other communication, you choose when I get interrupted, and that is horrible.

Set your email sync to 1hr and ignore it if you've become a pathological email checker. And use the delete key/mail filters aggressively.

email is such an abused tool, i have backlogs of email each morning in the 200+ range, of which i have to actually respond to 50-70.

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