Okay, I admit it. I’m an inbox junkie. And, If I have to look in more than one electronic inbox, it drives me crazy. Historically, nothing drove me crazier than voice mail… it just refused to behave. So the journey began: first it was eliminating all but one voice mail box; then I began forwarding everything — business, mobile, and home — to that one (voicemail) inbox. But even that wasn’t enough — I still couldn’t manage to remember to dial in for the messages. I tried asking people to e-mail me instead of leaving a voice mail, but that was short-lived. Then I hit on the magic dust: a voice mail transcription service. read more »

What would happen if you took the concepts of the slow food movement and applied them to the chronic cognitive overload lifestyle that many of us lead? Well, you’d get the slow e-mail movement of course. What’s the slow e-mail movement? Well, if I were to put it in my own words: it’s a 2-step program for teaching yourself, and your peers, to take it a bit easier on the send & receive and reply buttons (achieving instant karmic balance points in the process!)

To that IBM manager that supposedly appends “Read your mail just twice each day. Recapture your life’s time and relearn to dream. Join the slow email movement!” I say: not enough! read more »