Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero Talk at Google
October 25, 2007 7:22 pm videos
Merlin Mann gave a presentation at Google titled ‘Inbox Zero’ about how to manage your email. Merlin ruthlessly views email as an information delivery mechanism: once you have what you need, chuck the email. Emails are not letters or, as he often says, ‘Each email is not a little hug’.
One source of tension with my wife is her email management. It’s really my problem as I can’t help but look over her shoulder when she loads gmail and see that she has 276 unread emails in her inbox among the thousands of other read messages. Being the sneaking, meddling person that I am I played the audio version of Merlin’s talk on our road trip across America while she dozed, semi-conscious, in the car. By the end she was awake, listening, and hopefully feeling more guilty about her email.
[Click here to view Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero Talk]
You can also read more about Merlin’s email philosophy at InboxZero.com
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