This weekend, I’m clearing out 1200 messages in my inbox, accrued over the last 3 weeks, not counting spam and items already filed or deleted. One distributed start-up company, three non-profit affiliations, attempts to defeat the same bad law in several states, and three social\/political mailing lists. All of this adds up to a truckload of mail, much of it interesting and relevant if not immediately urgent.
\nThe “organize-yourself” books tell you to act upon or file each incoming message when it comes in.
\nSome messages are urgent — they relate to a current project or a customer and require an immediate response. When they come in, I think about them, make a decision, and put them away.
\nOther messages are less urgent. They’re about a conference in a month. They contain links to interesting-looking articles. They have an interesting-sounding conversational idea. They stay in the inbox.
\nI don’t have enough attention to think about every interesting idea that crosses my email box at the time.
\nWhat do you do? Do you have enough attention to deal with every piece of email every day? Are you bold enough to delete things that you didn’t have attention for that day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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