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I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip

• xlnt 18y ago
  i love my email. i want more. 90%+ is stuff i enjoy reading.
• lincolnq 18y ago
  Wow. This blows my mind. I have to beg people to email me instead of trying to IM me, talk to me, or (God forbid) send me a Facebook message. FTFA: "You can do something as simple as calling people instead of e-mailing them. If you work on the same floor, you can even walk over to their desks and talk to them!" Interesting. When I'm hard at work coding, I really don't want to be interrupted. (See Peopleware.) If you need something from me, email me. Email allows me to respond at my leisure (which is fairly often, but not while I'm in the zone, please). Email also allows me to keep a searchable record of what is said (IM has logs, but most of everything is in email). Lastly, email is my task list and if you communicate something to me in a different way, I just have to send myself an email.
  • tomjen 18y ago
    Solution: Turn off your IM, and don't respond to facebook messages. IM is optional, if you don't turn it on nobody will contact you. That said I find a phone call even worse.
    • akd 18y ago
      The nature of phone calls and emails are extremely different. Email is better for articulating complex ideas because you have the time to think them through; phone calls are better for hashing something out with someone live since the latency is in milliseconds instead of hours.