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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau I’m often asked how to handle e-mail overwhelm. While I do use some great apps to help stem the flood, the most important shield is still low-tech: a rock-solid e-mail autoresponder. This unsexy tool allows you to ignore some or …
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Pretty soon, many of you will get an email from me. It’ll probably surprise you. See, when I sketched out the original 4-Hour Workweek site in 2006 (sorely in need of a redesign), I included an email capture field, as that’s what friends said I should do: Then I promptly forgot all about it. I hated …
[Reposted from Lifehacker, where I guest posted this article this morning.] Investment bankers aren’t known for their impulse control. Several global firms in Zurich don’t allow their bankers to check email more than twice per day. The reason is simple: the more they check email, the more compelled they feel to send email. Technologist Robert …
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