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How to Break Free from Email Jail - Daniel Markovitz
- stephengillie 14y agoMany people are already doing this in their private lives: they use RSS feeds, webpage bookmarks, Instapaper, etc. to consume information when they're ready for it — they "pull" it when they want, rather than have it pushed on them. Pulling information allows them to smooth the flow of information they receive. They get to drink from a water fountain rather than a fire hose. These services are creating a buffer between the existing push systems and the desired pull system - content is pushed here and cached, then pulled when needed. So the key to this is having a bucket to which you can send everything, and which you can access on demand. For me, my pocket computing device (aka "phone") is my communications bucket.