The always brilliant Beth Kanter posted about one of my own life issues in Beth's Blog - the challenge of coping with a significant amount of email input without becoming overwhelmed.
In it, she includes links to some excellent resources and articles - from Saturday's New York Times, and one early warning from Wired in 2004, offering the option of declaring "email bankruptcy".
I shared some of my own "slow work" solutions to the question in Beth's post's comments field, but/and I continue to be very curious about how other people manage. I want to learn more about this whole phenomenon, and how we are collectively holding it through the cultural changes we're going through, brought on by these relatively new communication technologies.
How about you? How are you coping with the increased demand/opportunities for connection and responsiveness that email brings? Is it even a problem for you?
How does this question appear when we look at it through a beauty-lens ... ?
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