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Some changes
By brewmaster | July 5, 2007
I didn’t come to my vacation to work. I came to clear out the jumble in the mind, get some long-term personal passive earning work done and figure out how best to stay sane until we get the big lottery hit (just kidding, though we do play - somebody’s gotta win!).
One thing on my list was to be one of the first to buy a new iPhone. Which I did. And after using it for a few days, I’ve made some decisions about some things. You see, the iPhone is elegant and very non-complicated. Like life should be. There are a lot of things the phone could do, but opts not to, because in the end, they’re just not very important. Like my Blackberry. There’s a lot it does that I don’t need, but use anyway. It’s a great complicator. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been standing in line at Starbucks on the weekend flipping through my emails and see one from someone not terribly important that pisses me off and generates a polite but immediate response, and I’m steaming more than the milk in my extra-hot vanilla latte.
That’s just stupid. One of the decisions I’ve made is to start to heavily use email filtering and two email sprints per day - I’m thinking :10 at the beginning and :10 at the end of the day. Certain, high-value contacts (boss, boss’s boss, boss’s boss’s boss, etc…) go to my iPhone, and THAT’S IT. The others will just have to fit into a sprint, or get their email love from someone else.
I’m still working through Timothy Ferris’s The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tags: iphone, blackberry, 4-hour work week
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