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La Tirannia Dell'e-mail (2010)

by John Freeman(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8875781559 (ISBN13: 9788875781552)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Codice Edizioni

review 1: As I expected, this book shed some unflattering light on my online behavior. Yes, I click "refresh" on my Facebook and Goodreads.com pages more than is practical. Yes, I check my email many, many times a day. But now I understand more about why I do so (when there's a payoff, say a personal email instead of some junk mail, I get a little endorphin rush, furthering my obsession with the refresh button--Freeman and researchers liken this to the slot machine's tendency to feed gambling addictions). Since reading this book, I've taken three main steps in what I hope will be a progression towards not letting the Internet dominate my workday:1. I've unsubscribed from at least 30 newsletters. This got easier as I continued clicking the "unsubscribe here" buttons. I'm keeping... more a lot of my listservs and newsletters active, but any newsletters that I repeatedly ignore each week got tossed.2. I've written fewer emails. As Freeman notes, this is the one easiest move you can make to dramatically decrease your inbox volume. 3. I've included the phrase "(no reply needed)" in the subject lines of several emails that do not, in fact, merit a response. Feels good, and it takes the burden off the recepient to know that a response is not expected or requested.I hope to continue improving my habits--this book has already changed my workday!
review 2: Practical guide to mastering e-mailSend dramatically fewer e-mails and everything else will get better, says writer and editor John Freeman. Before explaining that promise, he offers a nostalgic look at the history of mail, starting with clay tablets. He covers the changes that each new burst of speed caused along the way. Then he describes the way that today’s employees are ruining their attention spans, productivity, relationships and even their health with e-mail overload. In fact, he says, most office workers send or receive about 200 e-mails daily, absorbing 40% of their work time. Freeman’s suggestion to slow down online communications will ring terror in many hearts. It will particularly strike you if you’re reading with one eye on this text and one eye on your inbox. The message to step away from the computer is not new. But Freeman offers compelling, succinct information on why easing back from unrelenting e-mail is important and on how to break the constant e-mail cycle. getAbstract suggests his book to managers, in particular, but anyone who uses e-mail will find wisdom here. So read on (believe it or not, your e-mail will wait). less

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