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Pointers from Cal Newport

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bZejoDI8kzOBbyyVhPQeE?si=5389bec7296343e3

  1. What are these messages coming in? Name the request type.
  2. Think it through:
  3. For each message type, what's the best way to do this process?

In A World Without Email, he asked 1,500 people to categorize emails during a representative work day across seven categories. Average was 8-10 per category per day; only outlier was informational at ~18.

  1. Planning (setting up meetings/calls)
  2. Informational (not requiring a response)
  3. Administrative
  4. Work discussion
  5. Client communication
  6. Personal
  7. Miscellaneous

JB’s List: Types of Emails (i.e. Processes to Create)

<aside> 💡 When processing email, these are the categories of messages I look for

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