Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-18

  • Ate boxter potato. Delicious. #
  • Misspelled dinner from last night. I ate boxty potatoes. #
  • Running around the building. We have large meetings every second Tuesday, and today is one of them. #
  • @mburtis Which article? Have not read this week’s yet. #
  • @maniactive Let’s hope they do not know something you don’t! #
  • @edwardperry Who are you thanking? #
  • @edwardperry Oh, and welcome to Twitter!! #
  • @Currie Are you moving to a new position, or just leaving an old one? #
  • @coolcatteacher Those were the occasion when I loved teaching the most. #
  • @mburtis Have not seen that yet, but sometimes think the #Chronicle is very forward thinking. Especially compared to many of their readers. #
  • @gapingvoid Not sure if that is a fair comparison. BBC is supported by the British government and mandatory fees http://tinyurl.com/396phj #
  • @gapingvoid NPR is competely non-profit and neither supported by governmental money nor mandatory fees http://tinyurl.com/3bsa5m #
  • @gapingvoid Budget has everything to do with it. Bigger budget means bigger shows which means bigger online presence. Money money money. #
  • @gapingvoid Now, I do like the BBC and listen to it regularly. My point is that comparing the BBC and NPR is like comparing the BBC and NYT. #
  • @Currie Very cool. Do you have some time off between the two commitments? #
  • Computer froze in a conference room and they wanted me to fix it. If I could fix it without losing files Bill Gates would give me lots of $! #
  • Both computers in both conference rooms froze. Hope that is not a sign. #
  • @pinoyboy You still have not said what this new toy is. #

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Inbox Zero Struggles

Yesterday I spoke about the success I had with Inbox Zero at work. That should make starting the day today much easier.

However, I was not as successful cleaning through my inbox at home as I hoped. This is what happened – I have become successful at removing junk and clutter from my home inbox, so none of that was present. Instead, the 30 or so emails I have there all require either Defer or Do (to relate to the 5 options for handling email).

This is the bottleneck; they all require work.

The items that have been deferred are the ones I am handling first. I am taking the main point and scheduling time to handle each of them. Alternatively, I am starting to do them as well. This is the gap – each of them requires a chunk of time to accomplish what is in the email or what it is reminding me to do.

My strategy? I see it as two-fold:

  1. Handle all new email as they arrive, selecting to Delete, Delegate, Respond, Defer, or Do it so they do not increase my work later on. Begin to keep up from now on.
  2. Handle 2-3 emails already in my inbox each day until I am caught up.

This seems realistic for me, and I have found that having the greatest plans in the world will amount to nothing if I cannot implement them.  I will report back . . .