One Way to Escape from Message Hell Admit it — it’s really great to get the message you want, when you want it, and in the time and place that you want it. And that vision is usually hard to match. photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/lexiestevenson/14115352937 Most Messaging is not Like This And it’s really horrible to get most…
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To Get More Done, Automate the Stuff You Hate
Like you, I spend a lot of time doing the same things over and over again. In physical space this is easier to think about: when you have clutter in your home, if you attack each area systematically you’ll eventually get to a clean room. It’s impossible to ignore a stack of things in your…
Future You Will Thank You for Handling Email Better
We get a lot of email – especially the kind we don’t want. The worst is getting email from sites that you don’t even know (when they got your details from the people that you did want you to send email originally.) How does this affect an average person? You might be spending 28% of…
Email, the Operating System for Life
Why you should bring your interactions to the place where people already spend their time. Email is the #1 Destination photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/maile/1773318/ Ryan Hoover published a great article the other day on the trend of using email as an interface to do other things. You probably already use it in this way by sending…
3 Things We Can All Do To Make Our Emails Better
I hope that you’re enjoying a pause right now and thinking about the people and things that matter most to you. A friend shared this article with me about Volkswagen’s effort to limit after-work conversation and it struck a chord with me – that we should all think about ways to improve our communication style and…
