All day long I place all kinds of distractions in my way. Here’s what you can do to cut down on the noise:
1. Unsubscribe from just about every email list you are a part of
2. Don’t have the news emailed to you - you’ll live
3. Keep your email inbox clean, as in empty.
4. Use filters (gmail) or rules (outlook) to push your other email straight to folders so they don’t show in your inbox. Then look at those folders once a day or once a week (or somewhere in between).
5. Change your browser home page to blank. I often hop on the computer with great intentions of getting something specific done, but it is interrupted by some articles on CNN.com that grab my interest.
6. Open my feed reader once a week, not every 15 min
Re: Thinking About Groups
- Perhaps.
But it could be as simple as Google creating an API for Google Groups.
Re: Thinking About Groups - What’s missing from the net in terms of groups is something much more fundamental. We need an infrastructure-like groups service. I create the group on that service then can use that group around the…
I thought I’d use LegalZoom to quickly process the creation of an LLC. Surely since it is a web app with low variable costs - it wouldn’t be too expensive.
Turns out I was wrong. They wanted to charge $80 to get a new tax number from the IRS. Yea, the same thing that is free and very easy to get here:
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Re: Managing "Unproductive" Meetings
- Good point.
But would you respond to me had I emailed you? (probably apples/oranges, since in a way you wrote me first)