58: Email Habits

On this episode, we chat about how to more deliberately deal with email, to both think about it less, and make it a less stressful element of your day. Topics covered include:

• How much we should think about email in the first place
• How to conduct “email sprints”
• The two types of work that we all do
• How to better organize your email messages
• Creating different “email environments”
• The “Five-Sentence Rule” for answering email
• The intention-interpretation gap with communication
• How to take an email vacation
• How to shrink time on email through disconnected hours and pre-defined boundaries
• Creating the illusion of responsiveness

Link mentioned in this episode:

• IBM Study: Am I wasting my time organizing email?

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