What will leaving email behind be about? (part 2)
February 6th. Twenty three days to go until I give up email (find out why I’m giving up email). What is going on right now as I get ready for it?
First – my fears:
- It will frustrate and create work for people I care about
- I will slip back into it
- I’ll miss something important
Second – my motivations:
- Spend the day in the stuff I’m working on, not the stuff people want me to work on
- Reduce context switching and the barcode day
- Spend more time ‘in the tribe’ and less time outside of it (thanks Jack Hubbard)
- Reduce anxiety and checky-checky
- Have more conversations
- Save the earth’s precious resources (those bytes don’t grow on trees you know. Oh hang on…..)
Third – what I’m reading:
- How one mountain biking authoress (how cool is that?) reclaimed 3 hours a day by giving up email
- The post-email experience of a techcrunch blogger (I don’t miss it and most people would like to join me but are too afraid)
- A practical guide from a post-inbox zen master (have another channel of choice)
- Tips about finding speed appropriate channels to replace email and how it turned out to be quite difficult
- Same cool mountain biking writer person but with a different slant – killing the backlog
