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Email Management
From: dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:03:14 +0000
2009/1/5 Brian Seel <brian.seel at gmail.com>:
As a recent college graduate who is wide eyed and ready to get out into the big world and revolutionize everything (atleast, thats what I think now), I have noticed that one of the biggest problems that many security people have is email. While my experience is limited to a handful of internships and my interactions with people I am interviewing with, it seems like everyone has way too much email and it takes away from their ability to do their job. So do you have any tips to get the information out while still having time to do your job?
I am really bad with having to check email as soon as it arrives but then I watched the inbox zero talk by Merlin Mann and decided to try it. I found it works really well, actually better when I'm busy and can justify to myself that I can ignore an email for an hour. Watch the talk on his site http://www.43folders.com/izero
As a follow up, how do you manage your time to keep up with news and podcasts? Seems like that alone could take up all of your time before you could even start to do anything.
This is something else I find I have trouble with (I always thought I was good at time management till I really thought about it!) so this year I've decided that between 9 and 10 in the morning is my time to catch up on things. That means reading news, going through all my rss feeds, listening/watching podcasts etc. As I'm self employed it is also going to cover doing things for the business that I usually put off in favour of doing paid client work. It worked this morning, ask me again in a month or two if it is still working! Robin
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