Low carb e-mail diet
by Andrew on 09/05/07 at 9:31 pm
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Tim Ferriss says, "e-mail is the single greatest time waster in modern life".
He reached a bottle-neck in his career when receiving 1,500 e-mails a week was unsustainable and 100% unscable.
"Deciding that incremental changes wouldn’t solve the problem, on June 14th, 2004, I decided to conduct an experiment at the opposite extreme – I left the United States to run the business from wireless locations in more than 20 countries. There was just one rule: I couldn’t check e-mail more than once per week for 15 months. To be honest, I expected the experiment to fail. Instead, profits increased 30% in the first four weeks alone. How did it happen? In retrospect it was simple."
Read about his new approach to e-mail reading in this short PDF on ChangeThis.com.
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make the world a more efficient place. View more articles by Andrew.
Peter
May 10th, 2007
The artical is an interesting and true short read. Email definatly gobbels up time, and throws off your sense of being able to determine what is important and what is not important.
The telephone is much better than email and sms, since it is more personal and keeps relationships healthy.
Vaughn
May 10th, 2007
Check out his book and blog at http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/
Lots of interesting stuff.