Published March 17th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
The Tyrany of Email
Ole Eichhorn has posted an excelent article titled “The Tyrany of Email”.
I maintain that programming cannot be done in less than three-hour windows. It takes three hours to spin up to speed, gather your concentration, shift into “right brain mode”, and really focus on a problem.
He’s absolutely right too. I found a while ago that to acheive any sort of meaningful productivity I had to turn my email notifications off. The rush of that particular project has passed and I’ve turned them back on again, but I’ve since started to suffer from Outlookitis (that horrible condition where you seem to spend your entire day working in Outlook) again. Think its time to turn off the email notifications again.
Jeremy Zawodny Says
Yup. I heartily agree.
Folks at work don’t seem to get it. They want be to be productive *and* read their e-mail 12 seconds after they send it.
Mar 17th, 2003 at 3:05 pm