June 29, 2005
Email overload? Time to “Getting things done”?
Waking up my laptop, I suddenly thought of this post by Mark:
plaxoed! ? Americans obsess over e-mail? Ask a Microsoftie? [Mark Jen?s life @ Plaxo]
At Plaxo, people say they get buried under e-mails when they get maybe 50-75 a day. At MSFT, that?s approximately how much a typical PM gets in an hour
He’s exaggerating a bit, but I went to bed at 4am, and now at 10am I have 30 unread messages in my inbox. And trust me – my inbox is heavily heavily filtered. I suspect that by 11 it will grow to 60 if I don’t take action.
This Friday I will read Getting Things Done.
4 Comments to “Email overload? Time to “Getting things done”?”
June 29th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
So how much e-mail would you be getting if you didn’t have any inbox filters?
June 29th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
How much email would a PM chuck if a PM could chuck email?
July 2nd, 2005 at 7:03 pm
Let me know how GTD is! It has sort of a cult-like following doesn’t it?
July 3rd, 2005 at 2:19 am
Indeed. And I overslept on Friday. So I guess I’m not on the right track to getting things done
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