On Deeper Reflection is a podcast on making our lives as happy and productive as possible! Today’s episode deals with the bugbear of many in medicine–email.
Email-Asynchronous with instant delivery–but this should not mean instant viewing
Philosophy is wrong, not tactics
Bad Solutions
An article on just keeping emails in inbox misses the entire point. There are only two acceptable solutions and ignoring email is definitely one of them, but inbox zero is the better version of that.
Inbox Zero
Arrival Rate vs. Departure Rate
Every inbox item costs you decision dollars
We don’t want to make decisions
Too Much Email-No!!!!! Too Much Stuff
I Just Check Once Per Day
Vs. I set aside time to do Deep Work
Analogous to I took Facebook off my phone…
2. Email Should Spark Joy
Used to have combined work and home
Never, ever do this!!!! Separate Work and Email
Work Check Once, while at work or every day depending on your job
Horrible human being would email on Friday afternoon with something horrible
3. Don’t treat an async tech as sync
Don’t expect or encourage real-time use
It is fine to reply right away, but dissuade the belief that you will consistently
Pacing
4. Your Email Inbox cannot be your ToDo system5. Just 1 Touch
DoIt
SystemIt
DelegateIt
SaveIt
UnsubIt-goes back to brings joy, true joy–not dopamine hit
FilterIt
Trashit (actually archive)
SpamIt
Maybe-Bringit Back Services
6. Archive, Don’t Delete7. Search, Don’t File8. Inbox Elimination to Keep You Honest
Too Many Inboxes
Gmail Mailboxes
9. Cut out Back & Forth Steps10. For Some Use cases, Are Slack/Basecamp/Teams the Solution?Books to Read
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