http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/06/12/email-overload/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.webfoot.com/2007/06/12/email-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Slaves to the inbox Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:02:04 +0000 http://www.webfoot.com/blog/2007/06/12/email-overload/#comment-262 [...] One other angle on this subject that I did not work into the article comes from Ducky Sherwood, who wrote books on how to handle e-mail burdens some years ago (and who also has a great resource page on all things email): I’m a bit bothered by an implicit characterization that “email is the problem.” This isn’t fair to the medium. Your problem is that lots of people give you stuff to do. (”Read my message” falls into the category of “stuff to do”.) People have been overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that other people give them to do since long before email. Tags: productivity, email, gtd, pims, personal information management [...] [...] One other angle on this subject that I did not work into the article comes from Ducky Sherwood, who wrote books on how to handle e-mail burdens some years ago (and who also has a great resource page on all things email): I’m a bit bothered by an implicit characterization that “email is the problem.” This isn’t fair to the medium. Your problem is that lots of people give you stuff to do. (”Read my message” falls into the category of “stuff to do”.) People have been overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that other people give them to do since long before email. Tags: productivity, email, gtd, pims, personal information management [...]

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