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🗓️ 2 November 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Steva Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more. |
| 0:08.4 | Replace addresses with codes for flexibility and powerful sorting. Email. I just love email. No, I don't. |
| 0:17.6 | I hate email, especially because there's so darn much of it. Most of us are pretty fed up |
| 0:21.7 | with it, but we can't stop sending it. On the receiving end, we get 100 emails a day, which range |
| 0:26.6 | from useless to incredibly important. You'll want to handle the urgent emails before the others, |
| 0:32.0 | but they're all mashed in together like a glorious Hungarian goulash, which I hear is pretty |
| 0:36.4 | darn glorious. One solution is to which I hear is pretty darn glorious. |
| 0:40.4 | One solution is to do what the most powerful people do. |
| 0:44.6 | Create a high-priority inbox on your own private email server in your basement and make sure that all of the other powerful people have that special email address. |
| 0:49.2 | But then you'll discover to your horror that powerful people also want to send you funny jokes |
| 0:53.9 | top ten lists and their personal endorsement for, hey, this great new body part enhancement formula, you'll discover to your horror that powerful people also want to send you funny jokes, top |
| 0:54.2 | 10 lists and their personal endorsement for, hey, this great new body part enhancement formula |
| 0:58.2 | that really works this time. And even with a legitimate conversation, you won't always know |
| 1:03.0 | that it's high priority when it starts. A conversation might become important halfway through, |
| 1:08.2 | or it might become unimportant halfway through. Or people might send |
| 1:11.8 | important stuff to your low-priority inbox, or low-priority stuff to your high-priority |
| 1:15.8 | inbox. It's a mess. And for perhaps the first time in all of human history, there's no app you |
| 1:21.1 | can download to solve this problem. Did you catch the irony there? I was trying to be a little |
| 1:25.4 | subtle. It would seem the only solution is to return to the world of mind-numbing drudgery |
| 1:30.5 | and categorize inboxes message by message. |
| 1:33.9 | It would seem that the only solution is to return to the world of mind-numbing drudgery |
| 1:39.8 | and categorize inboxes message by message since these separate email addresses for each priority |
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