Back in May, I started checking email only once a day (and sometimes not at all if I had no meetings). I had to accept that no-email days would be scarcer than I'd like, but overall it's been a good experiment. Typically I get through it as fast as possible (< 15 mins) and once ...
Arriving, stressed, on a Monday morning the other week I decided to shut the mail tab on my browser, with no intention of opening it again. This impromptu panic started a new thing - I'm checking (work) email at most once a day, if I have a meeting. No meeting days - usually one a week ...
I'm checking my email more frequently than I would like at the moment. Not because I'm procrastinating, but because there are about 3 people who I expect to hear from soon and I want to know as soon as I do. Trying out Priority Inbox which is good, but where's the "make a song and dance ...
So the most awesome thing happened at GHC, I asked a question at a panel and afterwards a girl came up to me and said "I think I've been reading your blog". Seriously. Made. My. Day. Then I was skimming my RSS feed and I found a comment on this post: For the record, a ...
I loathe email as a form of communication, I do. Having an iPhone has not made me any better at dealing with it, in fact it has made things worse - I can now monitor it in dead time and if there's nothing urgent then there's no need to actually check my email. So, if I ...
The other day I got an email from someone asking me to do something for them. They'd spelled my name wrong. This is someone who did a total of an hour volunteering for WISE and by being flaky had caused me a bunch of trouble. And so, I didn't reply. There's plenty of information about how ...
It's long been the case that in times of stress, I stop responding to email. Right now is a time of extreme stress (this week I have to write a paper, mark an assignment, and have an interview) and I've stopped even reading it. I'm monitoring my iPhone for genuine emergencies, but if it doesn't ...
This is where I live. In this space between what I could achieve in a given day, or week, or month... and what in my imagination I'm capable of. Of course in my imagination I never kick back and watch a movie with my friend and a bottle of wine (honestly, this rarely happens in reality ...
Now that my iPhone is unlocked (yay!) and has a data plan, I can play Foursquare. Which is exciting for me, but I know some people hate it and my boyfriend has been getting all angsty about giving up my privacy for nothing. The thing is though, I love tracking things. I track the applications I ...
Lately, things have been somewhat chaotic. I don't like it. It makes me stressed, overwhelmed, and unproductive. On Saturday, Treena and I headed out of town for breakfast and a chat. We caught up, and I was talking about how I had just hit this point where I was so overwhelmed I was having a hard ...
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