I love my phone. It goes most places with me, I use it for all kinds of great stuff and it has gotten me out of more jams than I care to count. It is definitely a “smart” phone. But what frustrates me more than anything is how smart phones make people stupid. Here’s what I mean. I recently drove downtown and was truly shocked by how many people I passed on the road who were clearly texting. In that kind of traffic I couldn’t believe more people weren’t crashing into each other! I guess their distraction distracted them in different directions. If you were in an accident, how do you justify to yourself you had to text that note right then? Or worse, if you killed someone, how would you justify it then? Less dramatic but more frequent, I’m always shocked at the people […] Continue reading
Creating Real Email Rules
Seth Godin put out a blog post today about making an email checklist . Â He referenced an article by Chris Anderson trying to accomplish the same. And of course there’s my rant in February on encouraging people to think before they hit “reply all”. Â Why are we all writing about this? Because we get too much email right now. Â The average person takes 30-60 seconds reading any given email. If you receive just 60 emails, you’ve spent an hour on that just cognitively processing them. Â If you have to open and read, that time goes up. Â How much time do you suppose you spend reading email? So these gentlemen have tried to come up with a list of rules for email to help streamline the process. For instance, they both recommend using “EOM” (end of message) at the end of subject lines if that’s all […] Continue reading