"If you count 5 minutes a day every work day, that’s 24,000 a year. You checked your email 24,000 times last year. Which in itself, I think, is an interesting data point. I think some interesting wisdom to take from that is you ask for — or allow — the potential for 24,000 interruptions from literally any human being in the world who could fall onto a keyboard and make an email go to you. What is the practical component of that? You are tacitly telling yourself there is no work that you do, in the entire universe, that is more important than what anybody in the world has on their mind right that second."
- Merlin Mann, speaking about the need to govern when and how you check email. (If you’re new to Mann, who’s busy writing a book called Inbox Zero, a good introduction to his sense of humor would be this single tweet.)
